🪦 Dead
Amazon Alexa (Original AI)
Product killed · Financial Losses · shut down September 1, 2024
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 9y 10m
- Cause of death
- Financial Losses
- Killed by
- Amazon
- Type
- App
The original Alexa voice assistant that pioneered smart speakers. After losing over $25 billion, Amazon pivoted Alexa to a new LLM-powered version behind a paywall ('Alexa Plus'), effectively killing the free AI assistant millions relied on.