The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
THE SO WHAT
A visible AI graveyard is a useful counterweight to hype—most failures here will trace back to weak distribution, shallow workflows, or unclear unit economics, not model quality. Use this as a checklist: if your product rhymes with multiple entries on that list, tighten the thesis or cut burn now.
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