SMRTR AISep 15, 2026TechCrunch

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

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A growing AI graveyard is forming as projects from big and small companies alike fail to survive. Relay shut down after bigger platforms copied its features, while roughly 42% of corporate AI projects get abandoned. Even OpenAI, Apple, and Microsoft have faced costly stumbles, missteps, and embarrassing reversals along the way.

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