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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it
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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation startup positioned as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The service let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as major platforms such as OpenAI and Google integrated similar automation directly into their products, Relay struggled to justify itself as a standalone offering. The article cites S&P Global Market Intelligence, saying about 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their parent companies. It also recounts other failures and pivots, including OpenAI’s rapid rollback of a “super app” redesign of ChatGPT Classic and the discontinuation of ChatGPT Atlas, absorbed into ChatGPT.
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