Discontinued AI Tools You Should Stop Relying On

Listnr is an AI voice platform for converting text into speech, generating voiceovers, and embedding audio players. Its published product materials also describe voice cloning and API access for speech generation.

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WellSaid Labs is an enterprise text-to-speech platform for creating synthetic voiceovers. It offers a studio, API, pronunciation controls, team collaboration, and custom voice avatars for production workflows.

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Fliki is a browser-based AI content creation platform that turns text, ideas, presentations, and other source material into videos with synthetic narration, stock media, avatars, captions, and editing tools.

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TTSMaker is a browser-based text-to-speech service that converts entered text into synthetic audio. It offers multiple languages and voices, playback and downloadable audio, with free usage subject to service limits.

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Resemble AI is a generative voice platform for text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, voice cloning, localization, and deepfake detection. It provides web tools and APIs for creating and managing synthetic voices.

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Speechify is a text-to-speech platform that converts documents, webpages, PDFs, and other text into spoken audio. Its products include reader apps, browser extensions, voice generation, dubbing, transcription, and an API.

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Typecast is an AI voice and video production platform from South Korea’s Neosapience. It converts scripts into synthetic speech and supports virtual avatars, emotion controls, dubbing, and downloadable media.

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NaturalReader is text-to-speech software from Naturalsoft that converts documents, web pages, PDFs, and other text into spoken audio. It offers online, desktop, mobile, commercial, and accessibility-focused products.

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Microsoft Azure AI Speech is a cloud service for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation, speaker recognition, and voice-enabled application development through APIs and SDKs.

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Descript Overdub is an AI voice-cloning and text-to-speech feature for creating or correcting spoken audio by editing text. It is integrated into Descript’s audio and video editor and includes consent-based voice controls.

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Kits AI is a browser-based music production platform for AI voice conversion, singing voice generation, vocal removal, stem splitting, mastering, and licensed artist voice models.

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Voicemod is real-time voice-changing and soundboard software for Windows and macOS. It provides voice effects, audio routing, custom voice creation, and integrations for games, chat, streaming, and content creation.

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Altered Studio is a desktop voice-content creation and voice-changing application from Altered Ltd. It supports speech-to-speech voice transformation, text-to-speech, transcription, and audio editing workflows.

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Voice.ai provides real-time AI voice changing and voice generation for gaming, streaming, calls, and content creation. Its ecosystem includes desktop and mobile apps and a library of user-accessible voices.

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Respeecher is a Ukrainian voice-cloning and speech-to-speech platform for producing synthetic dialogue while preserving a performer’s delivery. It serves film, television, game, localization, and accessibility workflows.

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iMyFone MagicMic is a real-time voice changer and soundboard for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. It provides voice effects, audio-file voice conversion, keybind controls, and integrations aimed at gaming, streaming, and voice chat.

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FineVoice is FineShare's AI voice platform for text-to-speech, voice generation, voice changing, transcription, and audio processing. It is offered through web tools and a Windows desktop application.

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Soundful is an AI music-generation platform for creating royalty-free tracks from genre and mood settings. It serves creators, artists, brands, and businesses through web tools, licensing plans, and an API.

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Beatoven.ai is an AI music-generation platform for creating customizable background tracks from text prompts. It is aimed at video, podcast, game, and other media creators, with licensing terms for downloaded music.

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Loudly is an AI music platform for generating, customizing, and licensing tracks for videos, podcasts, social media, and other digital projects. It also offers music distribution and audio tools for creators.

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Stable Audio is Stability AI’s generative-audio product for creating music and sound effects from text prompts. It offers web-based generation and is built around Stability AI’s audio models, including Stable Audio 2.0.

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Mubert is a generative music platform that creates royalty-free audio from text prompts and other parameters. It offers tools for creators, developers, listeners, and artists, including an API for integrating generated music.

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Riverside is a browser-based platform for recording, editing, and publishing remote podcasts and videos. It captures participants locally, supports separate tracks, transcription, and AI-assisted editing and clip creation.

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Alitu is a web-based podcast production tool that automates audio cleanup, leveling, assembly, music insertion, recording, transcription, editing, hosting, and distribution for podcast creators.

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Adobe Podcast is a browser-based suite for recording and editing spoken audio. Its AI features include speech enhancement, microphone checks, transcription-based editing, and remote recording tools.

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Auphonic is a web-based and desktop audio post-production service that applies loudness normalization, leveling, noise and hum reduction, filtering, encoding, metadata, and publishing workflows.

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Cleanvoice AI is an online audio-editing service that automatically removes filler words, mouth sounds, stutters, long silences, and background noise from podcast and spoken-word recordings.

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Podcastle is a browser-based audio and video creation platform for recording, editing, transcription, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and podcast production, with tools aimed at creators and teams.

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Swell AI is a content repurposing platform for podcasts and videos. It uses AI to generate transcripts, show notes, articles, clips, social posts, newsletters, titles, and other derivative media.

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Castmagic is an AI content workspace that transcribes audio and video, then generates summaries, show notes, timestamps, quotes, social posts, newsletters, and other reusable assets from recordings.

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Podsqueeze is an AI podcast post-production platform that turns uploaded audio or video into transcripts, show notes, timestamps, clips, newsletters, social posts, titles, and related publishing assets.

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Lexica is a web-based AI image search and generation service associated with the Stable Diffusion ecosystem. Users can browse prompt-linked images and create new images with Lexica’s Aperture model through a tiered subscription service.

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Outreach is a sales execution platform for prospecting, multichannel engagement, pipeline management, deal inspection, forecasting, conversation intelligence, and coaching, with AI features embedded across sales workflows.

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Lavender is an AI email coach for sales teams. It works with email and sales-engagement tools to score drafts, suggest revisions, personalize outreach, and give managers analytics on writing performance.

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Salesloft is a sales engagement platform for managing multichannel outreach, seller workflows, deal activity, conversation intelligence, forecasting, and revenue-team analytics.

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Orum is an AI-assisted sales dialing platform for outbound teams. It automates call detection and parallel dialing, connects representatives to live prospects, and provides coaching, analytics, and CRM-related workflow features.

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Apollo.io is a business-to-business sales intelligence and engagement platform. It provides company and contact data, prospecting, workflow automation, email sequencing, calling, analytics, and data-enrichment tools.

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Nooks is an AI-powered sales development platform for outbound calling, prospecting, and coaching. It provides a parallel dialer, virtual sales floor, call analytics, and AI-assisted workflows for sales teams.

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Regie.ai is an AI sales engagement platform for prospecting teams. It supports audience discovery, account and contact research, personalized outreach, sequencing, and sales-agent workflows across email and calling.

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Clari Copilot is a conversation-intelligence product for sales teams. It records and transcribes calls, generates summaries, surfaces coaching insights, and connects conversation data with Clari’s revenue platform.

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Conversica provides AI-powered conversational assistants for revenue teams. Its software engages prospects and customers through automated, two-way messaging for sales, marketing, and customer-success workflows.

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ZoomInfo Copilot is an AI-assisted sales intelligence workspace that uses ZoomInfo data, buying signals, and CRM context to help go-to-market teams prioritize accounts and prepare sales outreach.

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6sense Revenue AI is a B2B revenue intelligence platform that uses intent data, account identification, predictive analytics, and AI-assisted workflows to help sales and marketing teams prioritize accounts and coordinate outreach.

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Jiminny is a conversation intelligence and revenue intelligence platform for sales teams. It records and analyzes customer interactions, supports coaching, summarizes calls, and surfaces deal risks and performance insights.

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People.ai is an enterprise revenue intelligence platform that captures sales activity data, maps it to accounts and opportunities, and applies AI-driven analysis to help revenue teams manage pipelines, accounts, and sales execution.

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Fathom is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes video calls. It supports searchable meeting notes, highlights, CRM syncing, and team workflows for sales and other customer-facing teams.

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tl;dv is an AI meeting recorder and assistant that transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes online calls. It supports sales-oriented workflows such as CRM updates, coaching, playbooks, and multi-meeting reports.

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Attention is an AI sales platform that records and analyzes customer calls, updates CRM records, and helps revenue teams automate follow-up and coaching workflows using conversation intelligence.

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11x develops AI-powered digital workers for sales teams. Its products automate prospect research, lead qualification, personalized outreach, and inbound response workflows across email and related sales systems.

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Sybill is an AI sales assistant that records and transcribes customer calls, generates summaries, updates CRM records, drafts follow-up emails, and surfaces conversational insights for revenue teams.

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AiSDR is an AI sales development platform that helps teams research prospects, draft personalized outreach, run email and LinkedIn sequences, and surface replies or meetings for human sales representatives.

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Avoma is an AI meeting assistant and conversation-intelligence platform for recording, transcribing, summarizing, and analyzing customer calls. It also supports scheduling, coaching, CRM updates, and revenue forecasting.

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Artisan develops AI business-development representatives for outbound sales. Its Ava product supports lead discovery, research, personalized outreach, and campaign workflows through a software platform.

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Clay is a sales prospecting and data-enrichment platform that combines provider data, web research, AI-assisted messaging, and workflow automation to help go-to-market teams build and enrich lead lists.

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Seamless.AI is a sales intelligence and prospecting platform that helps sales teams find business contacts, research accounts, enrich lead records, and support outbound workflows with AI-assisted tools.

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Ebsta is a sales intelligence and revenue-operations platform that connects CRM, email, calendar, and engagement data to help revenue teams inspect pipelines, forecast outcomes, and assess account relationships.

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Amplemarket Duo is an AI-assisted sales platform from Amplemarket for prospecting and outbound workflow automation. It helps sales teams identify potential buyers, generate personalized outreach, and manage multichannel engagement.

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Salesken is a conversation-intelligence platform for sales teams. It analyzes calls and other buyer interactions to provide coaching, performance insights, deal intelligence, and guidance intended to improve sales execution.

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Balto provides real-time guidance for contact-center agents during live customer calls. Its platform analyzes conversations, surfaces prompts and compliance cues, and gives managers tools for coaching and quality assurance.

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Aviso AI is a sales revenue intelligence platform that applies AI to forecasting, pipeline inspection, deal guidance, conversational intelligence, and revenue operations workflows for enterprise sales teams.

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Convin is an AI conversation-intelligence platform for contact centers and sales teams. It records and analyzes customer calls, supports agent coaching, automates quality assurance, and surfaces conversation insights.

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Speechelo is a cloud-based text-to-speech application from Blaster Suite. It converts entered text into synthetic voice-over audio, with multiple voices, languages, and speech-style controls for video narration.

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Simon Says is an AI-assisted transcription and subtitle platform for audio and video. It provides automated transcription, translation, captioning, browser-based editing, and integrations for professional video-editing workflows.

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Ecrett Music is a browser-based music generator for videos, podcasts, games, and other media. Users select a scene, mood, and genre, then customize generated tracks and license downloads under a paid plan.

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Replica Studios was an AI voice platform for generating character dialogue and speech for games, animation, and other media. Its website now states that the service has shut down and directs visitors to support resources.

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HireVue is a hiring software platform for video interviewing, interview scheduling, assessments, and structured interview workflows. Employers use it to screen and evaluate candidates, including through AI-assisted features.

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Beamery is a talent lifecycle management platform for enterprise HR teams. It combines candidate relationship management, talent marketing, workforce planning, skills data, and AI-assisted recruiting tools.

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SeekOut is a talent intelligence and recruiting platform that helps organizations search for candidates, manage talent pools, support internal mobility, and use AI-assisted tools in recruiting workflows.

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BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform for recruiting teams. It records and transcribes interviews, supports structured interview workflows, generates notes and summaries, and provides analytics and coaching tools.

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Metaview is an AI recruiting platform that records and transcribes interviews, generates structured interview notes, and supports recruiting analytics. It integrates with video-conferencing tools and applicant tracking systems.

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Mercor is an AI-enabled recruiting platform that matches professionals with companies, including roles involving AI training and evaluation. It uses software to assess candidates and support hiring and contractor management.

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Textio is an enterprise writing and coaching platform for HR teams. It analyzes recruiting and performance-related language, offering guidance intended to make workplace communication clearer and more inclusive.

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Juicebox is an AI-assisted people-search and recruiting platform. Its PeopleGPT interface lets users describe hiring criteria in natural language, identify potential candidates, and support sourcing and outreach workflows.

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hireEZ is an outbound recruiting platform that helps talent teams search for candidates, enrich profiles, automate outreach, and manage sourcing workflows. The company previously operated under the Hiretual name.

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Harver is a hiring technology platform for high-volume recruitment. It provides candidate assessments, automated interview scheduling, reference checks, and hiring workflows intended to support screening and selection.

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Dover is a recruiting software and services company that helps startups manage sourcing, candidate outreach, applicant review, interview scheduling, and recruiting operations through software and human support.

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Eightfold AI is a talent intelligence platform for recruiting, internal mobility, workforce planning, skills management, and talent development. It uses AI to match people with roles and support enterprise HR decisions.

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Elicit is an AI research assistant from Ought that helps researchers search academic literature, screen papers, extract structured information, and synthesize findings for literature reviews and systematic reviews.

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ChatGPT Search is OpenAI’s web-search capability within ChatGPT. It finds timely information online, returns conversational answers with links to sources, and can search automatically or when users select the web-search option.

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Phenom provides an AI-enabled talent experience platform for recruiting, talent management, career sites, candidate engagement, employee development, and workforce intelligence used by enterprise employers.

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Felo Search is an AI-powered search engine from Tokyo-based Sparticle. It searches across languages, translates information into the user’s language, summarizes cited web sources, and offers topic collections and research-oriented features.

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Humanly is a conversational recruiting automation platform for screening candidates, scheduling interviews, answering applicant questions, and generating interview notes and insights for hiring teams.

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Splash is an AI music company and creation platform for generating songs, beats, vocals, and interactive music experiences. Its products have included a Roblox game, a mobile app, and Splash Pro, a browser-based music generator.

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Phind is an AI search engine and answer assistant aimed primarily at developers. It combines web search with large language models to answer technical questions, cite sources, explain code, and assist with programming tasks.

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iAsk is an AI-powered question-answering search engine that generates natural-language responses and cites web sources. It is operated by AI Search Inc. and offers general web, academic, forum, expert, and wiki-focused search modes.

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Orb Producer Suite is a collection of AI-assisted MIDI composition plugins for digital audio workstations. It generates and edits chord progressions, melodies, bass lines and arpeggios while giving musicians control over musical parameters.

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LALAL.AI is an online audio stem-separation service that uses machine learning to isolate vocals, accompaniment, drums, bass, piano, guitars, synthesizer, wind instruments, and other parts from recordings.

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Brave Search is an independent web search engine from Brave Software. It uses its own search index and offers optional AI-generated answers, while emphasizing privacy and not profiling users for targeted advertising.

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Exa is an AI-focused web search engine and API for developers and AI agents. It supports semantic and keyword search, webpage content retrieval, similarity search, and research workflows over web data.

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Endel is a generative sound app that creates personalized soundscapes for focus, relaxation, sleep, and movement. Its audio adapts using inputs such as time of day, weather, heart rate, and location.

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Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine that searches peer-reviewed research and uses language models to summarize findings. It provides cited answers, paper-level insights, and synthesis tools for research questions.

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Google Lens is a visual search and recognition product that uses a phone camera or image to identify objects, extract and translate text, find visually similar products, and surface related information from Google Search.

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MusicGen is Meta's text-to-music generative model within the AudioCraft research framework. It creates music from text prompts and can optionally condition generation on a melody, with model weights and code available for research use.

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Riffusion is an AI music-generation product that creates songs from text prompts. It began as an open-source experiment using Stable Diffusion on spectrogram images and later became a commercial music platform.

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Andi is an AI-powered web search assistant that presents direct answers alongside cited source links. It uses a conversational interface and is designed to help users search, summarize, and explore information without conventional ad-heavy result pages.

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Kagi Search is a paid, ad-free search engine operated by Kagi Inc. It uses its own indexes alongside other sources and gives subscribers controls for ranking, blocking, and personalizing websites in results.

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Hebbia develops AI-powered enterprise search and document analysis software. Its Matrix product lets teams analyze large collections of documents, extract structured findings, compare sources, and trace outputs to citations.

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PimEyes is a facial-recognition search engine that lets users upload a face photo to locate visually similar faces on publicly accessible websites. It provides source links and paid monitoring tools, but excludes social media from its stated search scope.

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Moises is an AI-powered music practice and production platform that separates songs into stems, detects chords, changes pitch and tempo, and offers tools for musicians, producers, educators, and audio creators.

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Lucidworks Fusion is an enterprise search and discovery platform built on Apache Solr. It provides tools for indexing, querying, relevance tuning, personalization, analytics, and machine-learning-assisted search applications.

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Searchie is a platform for hosting, transcribing, searching, and organizing video and audio content. It supports searchable media hubs, captions, analytics, and content repurposing for courses, memberships, and internal knowledge libraries.

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AlphaSense is a market-intelligence search platform for companies and financial professionals. It applies AI and natural-language processing to search filings, earnings calls, research, news, and expert transcripts.

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Cirrus Insight is a sales productivity platform that connects Salesforce with Gmail and Outlook. It offers email and calendar sync, tracking, scheduling, templates, and Salesforce data access within the inbox.

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Mixmax is a sales engagement platform for Gmail and Salesforce. It provides email sequences, scheduling, templates, tracking, workflow automation, and sales activity synchronization for revenue teams.

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Cognism is a B2B sales-intelligence platform that provides company and contact data, including phone-verified mobile numbers, to help revenue teams identify prospects, enrich records, and support outbound sales workflows.

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Jason AI is Reply.io’s AI sales agent for building prospect lists, generating multichannel outreach sequences, handling replies, booking meetings, and syncing activity with sales workflows.

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Spinify is a sales gamification and performance-management platform that uses leaderboards, competitions, goals, and recognition displays to help sales teams track activity and motivate representatives.

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Shut down - pioneered local ML code completion

AI-powered code completion tool that provided intelligent code suggestions in multiple IDEs.

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Shut down after acquisition

Ad-free, AI-powered search engine founded by ex-Google exec that aimed to provide unbiased search results.

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Shut down - voice synthesis

AI text-to-speech platform with ultra-realistic voices for podcasts, videos, and audiobooks.

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Withdrawn days after launch

Meta's scientific language model designed to help researchers with papers and knowledge.

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Shut down - hardware AI assistant

Humane launched the AI Pin in November 2023 with $230M+ in funding and pitches from ex-Apple founders. Reviewers panned battery life, latency, and a laser projector that wilted in sunlight. Sales never materialized, returns outpaced new orders, and in February 2025 HP acquired Humane's IP and team for roughly $116M while bricking existing Pins by month's end. The hardware is now a paperweight; the cloud services that powered it were shut off.

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Collapsed - digital health

Babylon Health was a UK telehealth and AI symptom-checker company that went public via SPAC in 2021 at a $4.2B valuation. Its 'AI doctor' chatbot drew regulatory scrutiny from the UK MHRA over accuracy claims. After delisting from the NYSE and an attempted private rescue in 2023, the US subsidiary filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August 2023 and the UK operation went into administration. The brand and apps are gone.

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Wound down and broken up

Olive was a healthcare RPA-and-AI company that hit a $4B valuation in 2021 after raising over $900M from General Catalyst, Tiger Global, and Vista. Customer hospitals reported the bots underdelivered and were difficult to maintain. After multiple layoff rounds in 2022 and 2023, Olive sold its two remaining business units to Waystar and Humata Health in October 2023 and shut down. The brand is gone; the website now serves a single sunset notice.

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Shut down - workplace reporting

AI-powered HR tool for anonymous workplace reporting and conflict resolution.

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Shut down - early AI art

Disco Diffusion was a free Google Colab notebook by Somnai that combined CLIP-guided diffusion with a community-tuned UI, going viral in early 2022 and seeding the prompt-engineering culture later cemented by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Active development on the official notebook effectively stopped in late 2022 once Stable Diffusion released and consumed the open-source diffusion community. The notebook still loads but is years out of date and runs poorly on modern Colab runtimes.

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Abandoned after its viral peak

Photo editing app that went viral for its AI-generated avatar feature using Stable Diffusion.

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Abandoned - AI song generation

AI music creation platform that lets anyone make and release songs in seconds.

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Abandoned - AI writing

AI writing assistant offering affordable content generation for bloggers and small businesses.

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Abandoned - image blending

Artbreeder launched in 2018 as a GAN-based image remix tool where users mixed 'parent' images into new outputs. It grew a strong community of character designers and worldbuilders. The team shipped a 'Collager' and a diffusion-based 'Artbreeder Composer' in 2023, but the platform never matched Midjourney or Stable Diffusion on quality and traffic dropped sharply. The site still loads and the subscription remains for sale, but the changelog and social feeds have gone quiet.

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Abandoned in favour of a new product

Arc launched in 2022 with a sidebar-tab layout and a cult following. The Browser Company raised $50M to build it, then announced in October 2024 that Arc was too complex for mainstream users and that all new development would shift to a new AI-first browser called Dia. Arc receives security patches only; no new features ship. Dia entered closed beta in 2025 and became the company's primary focus.

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Abandoned - personal memory recording

Rewind shipped a Mac app in 2022 that recorded everything on screen and made it locally searchable, raising $10M from a16z. By late 2023 the team pivoted hard toward a wearable pendant and renamed the company Limitless AI in late 2023. The Rewind Mac app still works for existing users but the brand, website, and product roadmap have all moved to Limitless. New signups land on limitless.ai.

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Acquired by OpenAI

Rockset was a real-time analytics database founded by ex-Facebook engineers behind RocksDB. It raised $100M+ from Sequoia, Greylock, and Icon, targeting low-latency vector and full-text search for production apps. OpenAI announced the acquisition in June 2024 to power retrieval inside its products. Rockset wound down customer service on September 30, 2024 and migrated technology and team into OpenAI's infrastructure org.

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Acquired and folded into a data platform

MosaicML built tools for training large language and diffusion models efficiently on commodity GPUs, releasing the MPT-7B and MPT-30B open-source models in 2023. Databricks acquired the company in July 2023 for roughly $1.3B, folding MosaicML's stack into the Databricks platform as the basis for what later became DBRX and the Mosaic AI training service. The standalone MosaicML brand was retired; the team and tech continue inside Databricks.

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Acquired by OpenAI and shut down

Multi (formerly Remotion) was a Mac video collaboration tool that let small teams co-edit screens with rich AI-assisted features. OpenAI announced the acquihire in June 2024, the entire team joined OpenAI to work on collaboration in ChatGPT, and the Multi product was shut down on July 24, 2024. The site now redirects to OpenAI.

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Acquired by OpenAI

Global Illumination was a small NYC studio founded by ex-Instagram and Facebook engineers that built creative tools and a Minecraft-style sandbox game called Biomes. OpenAI announced in August 2023 that it had acquired the company in its first-ever acquisition; the team joined OpenAI to work on core products including ChatGPT. The Biomes code is open-source but the company brand was retired.

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Acquired and absorbed

AI paraphrasing and writing tool that helps rewrite and improve text.

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Acquired by Thomson Reuters

Casetext launched CoCounsel in March 2023, a GPT-4-powered legal assistant for case analysis, contract review, and deposition prep. The product gained traction with AmLaw 100 firms and Thomson Reuters announced a $650M cash acquisition in June 2023, closing in August. CoCounsel was rebranded as a Thomson Reuters product line and integrated with Westlaw. The standalone Casetext site is gone.

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Acquired and absorbed

Conversation intelligence platform for sales teams to analyze customer calls.

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Acquired

Codeium rebranded its AI IDE as Windsurf in late 2024 and grew into one of the most-used Cursor alternatives. Google announced an unusual $2.4B licensing deal in July 2025 that took CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and the core research team to DeepMind without buying the company. Two days later, Cognition (maker of Devin) acquired the remaining Windsurf product, IP, and employees for an undisclosed sum. Windsurf now operates as a Cognition brand.

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Team absorbed by Microsoft

Creator of Pi, a personal AI assistant focused on empathetic conversation.

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Acquired - agents team absorbed

AI agent company building models that can take actions on computers on behalf of users.

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Acquired

Award-winning AI chatbot formerly known as Mitsuku, engaging in human-like conversation.

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Acquired

Open-source text-to-image AI model that went viral in 2022, later renamed Craiyon.

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Chat product shut down, company pivoted

Forefront launched in 2022 as a free playground for chatting with GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Claude, and image models in one interface. It briefly trended on Hacker News and Product Hunt and built a free-tier audience before paid alternatives like Poe and Perplexity captured the market. Forefront's chat app stopped accepting new signups in mid-2024 and the company pivoted toward enterprise data products. The original consumer site no longer functions.

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Possibly dead after its team was absorbed

Inflection AI launched Pi in May 2023 as a 'kind and supportive' chatbot built on its own Inflection-2.5 model, raising $1.3B at a $4B valuation. In March 2024 Microsoft hired CEO Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder Karen Simonyan, and most research staff in a $650M licensing deal that left Inflection a hollowed-out shell. Pi still loads and answers messages, but new models are not in active training and the company pivoted to enterprise AI services.

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Possibly dead - hardware AI assistant

Rabbit launched the R1 in January 2024 with a Teenage Engineering design and a 'Large Action Model' that promised to operate apps for you. Within weeks, reverse engineers showed the device ran a standard Android launcher and that the LAM was largely scripted Playwright automations. Most launch-day integrations (Uber, DoorDash, Spotify) broke or were quietly removed. The company has shipped firmware updates through 2025 but customer count, revenue, and the LAM roadmap have gone quiet.

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Lyrebird developed AI systems for copying a person’s voice from short audio samples and generating speech in that voice. Descript acquired the Montreal startup in 2019 and incorporated its technology and team.

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VocaliD developed personalized synthetic voices for people who could not speak and later offered custom voice technology for brands. The company combined donated speech recordings with a recipient’s vocal characteristics.

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Amper Music was an AI-assisted music composition platform that let users generate and customize royalty-cleared tracks for videos, podcasts, games, and other media. Shutterstock acquired the company in 2020.

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Tact.ai was a conversational sales assistant and digital-worker platform for enterprise sales teams. It connected with CRM and collaboration systems to help sellers access customer data and complete sales workflows.

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Nudge.ai was a relationship intelligence platform for sales teams. It analyzed email, calendar, social, and company data to surface relationship strength, account insights, and suggested paths to prospects.

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SetSail was a sales data and incentive platform that unified go-to-market activity, applied machine learning to identify deal signals, and supported sales-representative reward programs. It was acquired by ZoomInfo in 2024.

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Wingman was a sales conversation intelligence platform that recorded and transcribed calls, supplied real-time coaching cues, and analyzed sales interactions. Clari acquired its parent company, Observe.AI Technologies, Inc. (doing business as Wingman), in 2022.

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Refract was a sales conversation intelligence and coaching platform that recorded and analyzed calls, highlighted coachable moments, and helped sales teams review performance. Allego acquired the company in 2020.

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ExecVision was a conversation-intelligence platform for sales and customer-facing teams. It recorded, transcribed, analyzed, and surfaced coaching insights from calls. Mediafly acquired the company in 2021 and incorporated its technology into Mediafly Intelligence360.

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Revenue.io is a sales engagement and conversation intelligence platform that provides AI-assisted calling, coaching, lead prioritization, and activity capture for revenue teams using CRM workflows.

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BoostUp.ai was a revenue intelligence and operations platform that used AI to analyze sales activity, inspect pipelines, forecast revenue, and support account planning. The company was acquired by sales technology provider Cision in 2024.

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Jukedeck was a London-based AI music platform that generated royalty-free tracks from user-selected parameters such as genre, mood, duration, and tempo. TikTok parent ByteDance acquired the company in 2019.

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LOVO AI is a generative voice and speech platform for creating text-to-speech audio, voiceovers, voice clones, and narrated videos. Its Genny application combines AI voice generation with script, subtitle, image, and video editing tools.

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Veritone Voice is a synthetic-voice platform for creating, managing, and licensing AI-generated voice content. It supports custom voice models and is aimed at media, entertainment, sports, advertising, and related uses.

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Humtap was an AI-assisted mobile music creation app that turned hummed melodies and tapped rhythms into arranged songs. Its developer later shifted focus to enterprise generative media technology under the MWM brand.

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Altered was a real-time AI voice-changing product from Modulate that let users select synthetic character voices for online games and voice chat. Modulate later shifted its public focus to ToxMod, its voice-safety platform.

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Melodrive was an adaptive music system that generated and adjusted music in real time for interactive media, including games and virtual-reality experiences, based on emotional parameters.

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Podium was an AI post-production platform for podcasters that generated transcripts, show notes, chapters, clips, highlights, and social posts from uploaded audio. The service’s present operating status is unclear.

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VoiceVibes was an AI speech-coaching platform that analyzed recorded or live speech and provided feedback on vocal delivery, including tone, pace, energy, and perceived communication qualities.

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Paradox develops conversational recruiting software centered on Olivia, an AI assistant that automates candidate screening, interview scheduling, onboarding tasks, and communications for employers.

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HiredScore is an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps employers prioritize candidates, support internal mobility, automate talent workflows, and provide explainable recommendations within existing HR systems.

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Pymetrics is a talent-assessment platform that uses neuroscience-based games and machine learning to evaluate candidates and support hiring and internal mobility. Harver acquired the company in 2022 and incorporated its technology into Harver’s portfolio.

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Ideal was an AI recruiting platform that automated candidate screening, matching, and talent intelligence for employers. Ceridian acquired the company in 2021 and integrated its technology into the Dayforce platform.

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Entelo was a recruiting automation and talent intelligence platform that helped employers discover candidates, enrich profiles, manage outreach, and support diversity sourcing. Rival Gem acquired the company in 2022.

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Headstart was a recruiting technology platform that used machine learning to help employers identify and assess candidates while aiming to reduce bias in hiring. The business was acquired by HR software company Lattice in 2022.

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Google Hire was a recruiting and applicant-tracking service for small and midsize businesses using G Suite. It helped hiring teams manage candidates, interviews, feedback, and communication with Google Workspace integrations.

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WavTool was a browser-based digital audio workstation with AI-assisted music production features, including a text chatbot for generating and editing MIDI, synthesizers, effects, and project arrangements.

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Magenta Studio is a collection of music-creation plugins built with Magenta’s open-source machine-learning models. Its tools generate melodies and drum patterns, interpolate musical phrases, and modify MIDI files.

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Scite is a research discovery and citation-analysis platform that uses machine learning to classify citation contexts as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning a claim. It also offers literature search and an AI research assistant.

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Waldo was a research search platform for finding and extracting information from online sources. It provided source-backed answers and tools for organizing research, with a focus on professional knowledge work.

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XOR was a recruiting automation platform centered on an AI chatbot for candidate screening, interview scheduling, communication, and hiring workflows. XOR was acquired by Careerminds in 2023 and its former website now redirects there.

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Mya was an AI recruiting assistant that used conversational automation to screen candidates, answer questions, schedule interviews, and update applicant workflows. Its developer, Mya Systems, was acquired by StepStone in 2021.

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Atrium was a sales management software platform that analyzed CRM and activity data to help sales teams monitor performance, identify risks, and coach representatives using automated insights.

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Groove is a sales engagement platform for teams using Salesforce. It supports email and call workflows, activity capture, meeting scheduling, and revenue intelligence. Clari acquired Groove in 2023.

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x.ai was an AI-powered personal assistant for scheduling meetings over email. Users copied assistants such as Amy or Andrew on a message, and the service coordinated available times with participants.

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