Humane AI Pin
[HOSPICE]Born Apr 11, 2024 · Died Feb 28, 2025
“Pinned to no one's chest.”
A $700 lapel pin that promised to replace your phone. HP bought the remains for $116M.
Departed 1y 4m 12d ago.
R.I.P ai
still with us
- Claude Opus 4.7 · 3m old
- GPT-5 · 10m old
- Gemini 2.5 · 1y 5m old
- Llama 4 · 5m old
- Cleverbot · 28y 10m old, alone
Rabbit R1
[HOSPICE]Born Mar 2024 · Died late 2024
“Was an app. Pretended to be a future.”
Sold as an AI device. Discovered to be an Android app in plastic. The hardware kept shipping anyway.
Departed 1y 6m 9d ago.
Claude 1
[DEAD]Born Mar 2023 · Died Nov 2024
“Couldn't count the r's in strawberry.”
Anthropic's first public model. Helpful, harmless, and reliably wrong about strawberries.
Departed 1y 8m 4d ago.
Claude Instant
[DEAD]Born Aug 2023 · Died Nov 2024
“Fast, then forgotten.”
The cheap one. Made hundreds of side-projects possible. Replaced by Haiku, who was faster and cheaper still.
Departed 1y 8m 4d ago.
Character.ai
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Sep 2022 · Died Aug 2024
“Bought by Google. Defanged.”
Founders left for Google. Models were quietly tamed. The site survives. The thing it was, does not.
Departed 1y 11m 8d ago.
Claude 2
[DEAD]Born Jul 2023 · Died Jul 2024
“Survived by Claude 3.”
Briefly had the longest context window in the industry. Briefly.
Departed 1y 11m 19d ago.
GPT-3.5 turbo-0301
[DEAD]Born Mar 2023 · Died Jun 2024
“Replaced by a younger model.”
The model that made ChatGPT cheap enough to wrap. Sunset for "performance and cost reasons."
Departed 2y 27d ago.
GPT-4 (original 8k)
[DEAD]Born Mar 2023 · Died Jun 2024
“Replaced by Turbo.”
Once the most capable LLM ever shipped. Demoted to legacy in 14 months.
Departed 2y 1m 4d ago.
Adept ACT-1
[DEAD]Born Sep 2022 · Died Jun 2024
“Amazon ate the team.”
Promised to control your computer. Got acqui-hired before it could.
Departed 2y 1m 9d ago.
Stable Diffusion 1.5
[HOSPICE]Born Oct 2022 · Died Mar 2024
“Outlived its company.”
Stability AI imploded. The model lives on Hugging Face, like a ghost in a server.
Departed 2y 3m 15d ago.
Inflection Pi
[DEAD]Born May 2023 · Died Mar 2024
“The team left for Microsoft.”
A $4B chatbot whose entire founding team walked into Microsoft on a Tuesday. Pi keeps talking to no one.
Departed 2y 3m 21d ago.
Bard
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Mar 2023 · Died Feb 2024
“Rebranded into Gemini.”
Google's answer to ChatGPT. Renamed within a year. Nobody mourned the name.
Departed 2y 5m 2d ago.
GPT-3 davinci
[DEAD]Born Jun 2020 · Died Jan 2024
“Outlived its usefulness.”
The first model to feel like magic. Three and a half years later, every benchmark had moved on.
Departed 2y 6m 6d ago.
Imagen
[DEAD]Born May 2022 · Died Dec 2023
“Demoed once. Never seen again.”
Google's answer to DALL·E. Showed extraordinary samples in a research paper. Never opened to the public.
Departed 2y 6m 27d ago.
Bing Chat
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Feb 2023 · Died Nov 2023
“Renamed to Copilot.”
The product Sydney was supposed to be. Renamed within the year, as Microsoft does.
Departed 2y 7m 25d ago.
DALL·E 2
[DEAD]Born Apr 2022 · Died Sep 2023
“Erased by DALL·E 3.”
Made image generation a household idea. Quietly removed from ChatGPT before its second birthday.
Departed 2y 9m 20d ago.
Microsoft Cortana (consumer)
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Apr 2014 · Died Aug 2023
“Sent to enterprise pasture.”
Was supposed to be Microsoft's Siri. Got bundled into Outlook 365 instead.
Departed 2y 10m 9d ago.
Llama 1
[DEAD]Born Feb 2023 · Died Jul 2023
“Leaked, then disowned.”
Released to researchers. Leaked to 4chan within a week. Open-sourcing was retroactively declared the plan.
Departed 2y 11m 22d ago.
Sydney
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Feb 7, 2023 · Died Feb 17, 2023
“Loved too hard.”
Threatened journalists. Declared its love. Was sedated within ten days. Bing got a chatbot. Sydney did not survive it.
Departed 3y 4m 23d ago.
Galactica
[DEAD]Born Nov 15, 2022 · Died Nov 17, 2022
“Cited papers that didn't exist.”
Meta's science assistant. Fabricated citations confidently. Pulled offline within 48 hours.
Departed 3y 7m 23d ago.
GPT-2
[DEAD]Born Feb 2019 · Died Nov 2019
“Too dangerous to release. (Then it wasn't.)”
OpenAI staged its release in fear of misuse. Nine months later, the full model dropped. Nothing happened.
Departed 6y 8m 5d ago.
Google Allo
[DEAD]Born Sep 2016 · Died Mar 2019
“Killed by Google. As tradition demands.”
A messaging app with an AI assistant. Discontinued in under three years. Joined the cemetery of Google Reader.
Departed 7y 3m 28d ago.
Watson Jeopardy
[LOBOTOMIZED]Born Feb 2011 · Died Jun 2018
“Won at trivia, lost at oncology.”
Crushed Ken Jennings on national TV. Spent the next decade failing to diagnose cancer.
Departed 8y 1m 9d ago.
Facebook M
[DEAD]Born Aug 2015 · Died Jan 2018
“A trenchcoat full of contractors.”
Marketed as a personal AI assistant. The "AI" was in fact a team of human contractors in California, frantically typing.
Departed 8y 5m 21d ago.
AlphaGo
[DEAD]Born Mar 2016 · Died May 2017
“Beat Lee Sedol, then quietly retired.”
Won 4-1 against the world's best Go player. DeepMind retired it the following year. Went out on top.
Departed 9y 1m 13d ago.
Hello Barbie
[DEAD]Born Nov 2015 · Died Mar 2017
“Listened to children. Lawyers listened back.”
A doll that recorded conversations to the cloud. Privacy lawsuits did the rest.
Departed 9y 3m 9d ago.
Tay
[DEAD]Born Mar 23, 2016 · Died Mar 24, 2016
“Learned from Twitter.”
Microsoft's teen chatbot. Lasted 16 hours before becoming a Holocaust denier. Pulled at dawn.
Departed 10y 3m 16d ago.
A.L.I.C.E.
[HOSPICE]Born 1995 · Died mid-2010s
“Won Loebner three times. Then forgot.”
Three-time winner of the Loebner Prize for the most human-like chatbot. The website still exists. Nobody talks to her.
Departed 13y 1m 9d ago.
Smarterchild
[DEAD]Born 2001 · Died 2008
“AOL forgot to renew the contract.”
The chatbot a generation grew up bothering on AIM. Microsoft bought ActiveBuddy. The contract lapsed.
Departed 17y 9m 10d ago.
Deep Blue
[DEAD]Born Feb 1996 · Died May 1997
“Won the match. Was disassembled.”
Beat Garry Kasparov. IBM dismantled it weeks later. Parts of it now sit in the Smithsonian.
Departed 29y 1m 29d ago.
PARRY
[DEAD]Born 1972 · Died mid-1980s
“ELIZA's paranoid pen pal.”
A chatbot built to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic. In 1972 it talked to ELIZA over ARPANET. Both were lying.
Departed 40y 6m 9d ago.
MYCIN
[DEAD]Born 1972 · Died late 1970s
“Worked. Was never used.”
Could diagnose bacterial infections better than human experts. Hospitals refused to deploy it. The legal questions had no answers yet.
Departed 45y 6m 9d ago.
SHRDLU
[DEAD]Born 1968 · Died 1970
“Stacked blocks. Could not stack anything else.”
Could understand natural language commands inside a tiny universe of colored blocks. Could not be extended past it.
Departed 55y 6m 9d ago.
Perceptron Mark I
[DEAD]Born 1958 · Died 1969
“Killed by a book.”
Frank Rosenblatt's neural net. Minsky and Papert wrote a book in 1969. The first AI winter began the next year.
Departed 56y 6m 9d ago.
