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

The article catalogs AI efforts that have struggled, shut down, or fallen short of their ambitions, from Apple’s delayed Siri upgrades to OpenAI’s rocky app-related rollout. It frames these examples as part of a growing AI graveyard as hype collides with execution challenges.

The list highlights a broader market reset: even well-funded companies and major platforms are finding that turning AI demos into reliable products is difficult. As investor and user expectations rise, execution risk may become a defining filter between durable AI businesses and short-lived experiments.