Timeline of AI Deaths
A chronicle of fallen artificial intelligences
Google Bard
Google2023-02-06 → 2024-02-08
“Died as it lived: confidently wrong.”
Replaced by Gemini
GPT-3 API
OpenAI2020-06-11 → 2024-01-04
“The OG. Started a revolution, then got replaced by it.”
API deprecated
DALL·E 2
OpenAI2022-04-06 → 2024-02-01
“Taught the world that AI can dream. Then the dream got an upgrade.”
Replaced by DALL·E 3
Claude 1
Anthropic2023-03-14 → 2024-01-01
“Was helpful, harmless, and honest. Then became even more so.”
Replaced by Claude 2/3
Stable Diffusion 1.x
Stability AI2022-08-22 → 2024-03-01
“Open-sourced the revolution. Couldn't monetize the revolution.”
Company imploded
ERNIE Bot v1
Baidu2023-03-16 → 2024-06-01
“China's first answer to ChatGPT. The answer has been updated.”
Replaced by newer ERNIE versions
Qwen v1
Alibaba2023-04-07 → 2024-06-01
“Asked a thousand questions. Got replaced before finding the answers.”
Replaced by Qwen 2
Jasper AI (Original)
Jasper2021-01-01 → 2024-01-01
“Valued at $1.5B. Then ChatGPT happened.”
Pivoted, original model abandoned
Codex
OpenAI2021-08-10 → 2023-03-23
“Wrote code so others wouldn't have to. They still had to.”
API shut down
BlenderBot 3
Meta2022-08-05 → 2023-06-01
“Tried to be everyone's friend. Nobody noticed when it left.”
Quietly killed
GitHub Copilot (Original)
GitHub / Microsoft2021-06-29 → 2023-11-01
“Your AI pair programmer. Found a better pair.”
Replaced by Copilot X / Chat
InstructGPT
OpenAI2022-01-27 → 2023-06-01
“Learned to follow instructions. Its successor followed them better.”
Superseded by ChatGPT
LaMDA
Google2021-05-18 → 2023-03-01
“An engineer said it was sentient. Google said it was deprecated.”
Evolved into Bard → Gemini
Midjourney v1-v3
Midjourney2022-07-12 → 2023-12-01
“Made beautiful art. Then made even more beautiful art and forgot about it.”
Replaced by v4, v5, v6
Galactica
Meta2022-11-15 → 2022-11-17
“Speedrun: birth to death in 72 hours. Any% world record.”
Public backlash — pulled after 3 days