The AI product graveyard keeps filling up: 48 tools shut down since 2023
Tencent's Yuanqi no-code agent platform will stop serving on Nov 9 after an Oct 8 notice, invalidating user-built agents — the second Tencent AI product retired in weeks, following QClaw's Dec 24 shutdown. A retrospective roundup catalogues roughly 48 discontinued AI products from big tech and startups since 2023, including OpenAI's Sora, the ChatGPT Atlas browser and GPT-4o, Google's Bard and Project Mariner, Microsoft's GPT Builder and Meta's celebrity chatbots, plus overseas projects such as Humane AI Pin, Phind and Tome, and the user-built agents taken offline by Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao. It groups the failures into five causes: absorption into a bigger super-app entry point, unsustainable compute costs, commoditization by general models, compliance and safety pressure, and rushed launches meant only to avoid missing out — while citing data that generative AI app downloads and in-app revenue still grew in 2025.
For builders and buyers, the list is a reminder to check data export and workflow migration options before betting on a single-point AI tool that a platform owner can absorb or retire at any time.