The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
THE SO WHAT
A visible AI graveyard—spanning big-company launches and startups—confirms that “we added AI” is not a business model. Treat this as a dataset: pattern-match which categories die (thin wrappers, undifferentiated assistants) and avoid building the 17th version of the same thing.
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