https://killedbyai.net/ A digital cemetery for discontinued AI models, apps, startups, and hardware. en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:36:35 +0000 https://killedbyai.net/#cohere-command-r-command-r-on-amazon-bedrock https://killedbyai.net/#cohere-command-r-command-r-on-amazon-bedrock Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The RAG-and-tool-use pair AWS launched on Bedrock in April 2024 both hit end-of-life at 08:00 UTC, after a staged wind-down: legacy in February, new customers cut off in May, hard kill in August. AWS named no replacement for either. Cohere had already pulled the originals from its own API back in September 2025 — along with command-light, base command, summarize, and its entire fine-tuning product. model https://killedbyai.net/#google-imagen-4-0-gemini-api https://killedbyai.net/#google-imagen-4-0-gemini-api Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 All three Imagen 4.0 variants on the Gemini API — generate, ultra and fast — dead in under 14 months, after Google already slipped the date once. The best part was the exit signage: the pricing-page banner told users to migrate to Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, which is itself deprecated with an October shutdown. An evacuation route into a building that's also on fire. model https://killedbyai.net/#groq-llama-3-1-8b-instant-llama-3-3-70b-versatile https://killedbyai.net/#groq-llama-3-1-8b-instant-llama-3-3-70b-versatile Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The second half of Groq's two-stage catalog cull, after Qwen3-32B and Llama 4 Scout went in July. Free and developer tiers only — committed-spend enterprise contracts were exempt. llama-3.3-70b-versatile was the only free-tier model with enough context headroom for a lot of real production prompts, and nothing left in the free catalog replaced it. model https://killedbyai.net/#openai-atlas https://killedbyai.net/#openai-atlas Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered web browser, launched October 2025 as its bid to own the browsing layer. Dead in under ten months. OpenAI absorbed the agentic browsing into ChatGPT and a Chrome extension instead. Bookmarks did not transfer automatically — users had to manually export them as HTML before the deadline or lose them, and open tabs and history simply didn't carry over. app https://killedbyai.net/#claude-opus-4-1 https://killedbyai.net/#claude-opus-4-1 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Retired exactly one year to the day after release — the model ID carries its own birthday, claude-opus-4-1-20250805. Anthropic gave 61 days' notice, one day above its stated 60-day minimum. It was the second flagship retirement in under two months after Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 both died June 15. Anthropic's own deprecation page concedes that retirement means researchers lose access for comparative studies and that it 'introduces safety- and model welfare-related risks.' model https://killedbyai.net/#mistral-magistral https://killedbyai.net/#mistral-magistral Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mistral's first reasoning models, shipped June 2025 as a separate product line. On July 31, 2026 the last two snapshots were retired — and with them the entire category. Reasoning at Mistral is now just a request parameter, reasoning_effort, on general-purpose models. The official migration path runs from magistral-small-latest to mistral-small-latest, a one-letter difference, at roughly 70% less on input. model https://killedbyai.net/#reforged-labs https://killedbyai.net/#reforged-labs Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Built AI-generated video ad creative for mobile game studios and won real customers — Supercell, King, Ubisoft, Playtika, Scopely — with 17 staff across Vietnam and the US. CEO Robert Huynh shut it down after three years because foundation models got good enough for studios to build the same tooling in-house: 'the gap we were selling into is closing.' Its biggest customers signed six-figure contracts; there were simply too few studios at that scale to sustain a company. startup https://killedbyai.net/#github-models https://killedbyai.net/#github-models Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 GitHub's free multi-model playground and inference API — Llama 3.1, GPT-4o, Cohere Command and Mistral Large, all callable with just a GitHub token. GitHub closed it to new customers in June 2026, then ran two deliberate 'brownouts' on July 16 and 23 where requests simply returned errors, to smoke out anyone still depending on it. On July 30 everything went dark, including for existing paying customers. Free model experimentation went back to being a cloud-procurement decision. service https://killedbyai.net/#amazon-bedrock-agents-classic https://killedbyai.net/#amazon-bedrock-agents-classic Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AWS's flagship managed AI-agent product, launched at re:Invent 2023, was renamed 'Bedrock Agents Classic' and shoved into maintenance mode — closed to new customers, model catalog frozen, superseded by Bedrock AgentCore. New accounts calling CreateAgent now get a 403 citing maintenance mode. AWS broke its own CDK integration tests in the process and swapped the agent resource for a CloudWatch dashboard. One of roughly 20 services swept into maintenance in a single bulletin. service https://killedbyai.net/#deepseek-deepseek-chat-deepseek-reasoner https://killedbyai.net/#deepseek-deepseek-chat-deepseek-reasoner Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The two API names the entire January 2025 DeepSeek boom was written against. DeepSeek killed them at 15:59 UTC on July 24, telling developers to call deepseek-v4-flash and toggle thinking mode in the request instead of switching model IDs. The migration notes promised the retired names would 'return 404.' They never did — weeks past the hard cutoff, third-party clients still had both names working as silent aliases, priced identically. model https://killedbyai.net/#openai-operator-cua-preview https://killedbyai.net/#openai-operator-cua-preview Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's Computer-Using Agent — the model that clicked, scrolled and typed its way around websites on your behalf. Shut down July 23, 2026 as part of a 14-model cull that also took gpt-5-codex, gpt-5.1-codex-max and gpt-5.2-codex. The whole computer-use preview line died in a single afternoon, eighteen months after it was billed as the future of agentic AI. service https://killedbyai.net/#groq-qwen3-32b-llama-4-scout https://killedbyai.net/#groq-qwen3-32b-llama-4-scout Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Groq deleted qwen/qwen3-32b and meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct on July 17, 2026 — the first half of a two-stage cull that takes Llama 3.1 8B Instant and Llama 3.3 70B Versatile in August. The best-documented failure mode: a retired Groq model fails quietly, so downstream apps didn't break, they just started sounding generic. model https://killedbyai.net/#relay-app https://killedbyai.net/#relay-app Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI-agent workflow automation pitched as a Zapier alternative, founded by Jacob Bank — ex-Google Gmail and Calendar product lead whose previous startup Timeful was bought by Google. On July 16, 2026 the homepage was simply replaced with 'Relay.app is shutting down,' with no reason given. A month later the answer arrived: Bank and part of the team joined Google's Chrome division. The free tier stopped working August 15; paid accounts were given until September 14. startup https://killedbyai.net/#tv-time https://killedbyai.net/#tv-time Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The beloved TV-tracking app used by millions to log episodes and get recommendations for 15 years. Shut down so its parent company could refocus on AI products — one of the clearest cases of a healthy, loved product dying not from AI competition, but from its owner chasing the AI gold rush. app https://killedbyai.net/#doubao-qwen-ai-agent-builders https://killedbyai.net/#doubao-qwen-ai-agent-builders Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen both killed their AI-agent creation features on the same day — July 15, 2026 — as China's Interim Measures for Anthropomorphic AI Interaction Services took effect. Every user-created agent stopped functioning, not just new creation. Two of China's biggest AI platforms amputated a flagship feature simultaneously under regulatory pressure. service https://killedbyai.net/#meta-llama-api https://killedbyai.net/#meta-llama-api Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Meta's own hosted home for Llama inference, unveiled at the first-ever LlamaCon in April 2025. Fourteen months later Meta retired the public preview and told developers to go rent Llama from AWS Bedrock, Together AI or Groq instead. Its replacement hosted service serves closed-weight models — cloud-only, no downloadable weights. The company that built its reputation on open models kept the API business and dropped the open part. service https://killedbyai.net/#google-imagen-vertex-ai https://killedbyai.net/#google-imagen-vertex-ai Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google's family of text-to-image models on Vertex AI, once the backbone of image generation across Google Cloud and Workspace. Retired June 24, 2026 as native image generation folded directly into the Gemini 3 models. Apps built on the standalone Imagen endpoints were forced to migrate to Gemini's built-in image gen. model https://killedbyai.net/#claude-sonnet-4-opus-4 https://killedbyai.net/#claude-sonnet-4-opus-4 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic's flagship Claude 4 generation — Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 — retired less than a year after launch. API calls to claude-sonnet-4-0 and claude-opus-4-0 return errors after June 15, 2026. Replaced by the 4.5 and 4.7 series with dramatically improved coding and computer use capabilities. model https://killedbyai.net/#claude-fable-5-mythos-5-june-suspension https://killedbyai.net/#claude-fable-5-mythos-5-june-suspension Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic's most powerful model ever — a 'Mythos-class' tier above Opus that scored 10%+ higher than Opus 4.8. Launched June 9, killed June 12 when the U.S. Commerce Department issued a national-security export directive barring use by any foreign national anywhere — including Anthropic's own staff. The only way to comply was to shut it off for everyone. Dead for 19 days until Commerce lifted the controls on June 30; Fable 5 returned globally on July 1 with a new jailbreak classifier. A rare resurrection — killed by government order, then un-killed. model https://killedbyai.net/#stainless-sdk-generator https://killedbyai.net/#stainless-sdk-generator Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The startup that auto-generated production-ready API SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin. Used by OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, Replicate, Runway, and Meta. Anthropic acquired it for $300M+ and immediately announced it would wind down all hosted products — a strategic kill to deny competitors access to critical infrastructure. startup https://killedbyai.net/#xai-grok-legacy-models https://killedbyai.net/#xai-grok-legacy-models Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Eight Grok models retired at once: grok-4-1-fast, grok-4-fast, grok-4-0709, grok-code-fast-1, grok-3, and grok-imagine-image-pro. xAI silently redirected all retired slugs to grok-4.3 — meaning developers' bills and output quality changed without code changes or warnings. A masterclass in how NOT to handle deprecation. model https://killedbyai.net/#dall-e-3-api-snapshots https://killedbyai.net/#dall-e-3-api-snapshots Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The specific dated snapshots of DALL·E 3 used via the Images API were scheduled for removal as OpenAI consolidated image generation under GPT-4o's native image capabilities. Another casualty of the 'everything in one model' consolidation trend. model https://killedbyai.net/#openai-realtime-api-beta https://killedbyai.net/#openai-realtime-api-beta Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's WebSocket-based API for building real-time voice conversations, powering Advanced Voice Mode demos. The beta endpoint was deprecated as OpenAI shipped a GA (general availability) version with a different interface, forcing developers to rewrite their integrations. service https://killedbyai.net/#claude-3-7-sonnet https://killedbyai.net/#claude-3-7-sonnet Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic's first model with hybrid 'extended thinking' — it could reason step-by-step for up to 128K tokens before answering, scoring state-of-the-art on SWE-Bench coding benchmarks at launch. Deprecated just 15 months after release as the Claude 4 family made extended thinking standard across the entire lineup. model https://killedbyai.net/#gpt-5-2-gpt-5-3-api-snapshots https://killedbyai.net/#gpt-5-2-gpt-5-3-api-snapshots Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI deprecated the gpt-5.2-chat-latest and gpt-5.3-chat-latest snapshots less than 4 months after release. The pace of model churn has become so extreme that even 'latest' models are now deprecated quarterly, leaving developers in a permanent migration treadmill. model https://killedbyai.net/#google-project-mariner https://killedbyai.net/#google-project-mariner Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google DeepMind's experimental AI browser agent that could navigate Chrome, fill out forms, book travel, and complete web tasks by taking screenshots and clicking for you. Quietly killed after 17 months when staff were reassigned. The tech was absorbed into Gemini Agent. Privacy concerns and high compute costs for visual processing made it unsustainable. service https://killedbyai.net/#google-doppl https://killedbyai.net/#google-doppl Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google Labs' AI-powered virtual try-on app that let users see how clothes would look on their avatar. Made TIME's Best Inventions of 2025 list, then killed less than a year later as the feature was absorbed into Google Shopping search results. app https://killedbyai.net/#google-whisk https://killedbyai.net/#google-whisk Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Google Labs' viral image-remixing tool that let users blend a Subject, Scene, and Style image instead of writing prompts. Its Sticker and Plushie styles briefly took over social media. Killed after 17 months when Google folded it into Flow — continuing its pattern of absorbing experimental AI products into fewer surfaces. app https://killedbyai.net/#openai-sora https://killedbyai.net/#openai-sora Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's text-to-video model and standalone app. The Sora web and app were shut down on April 26, 2026 (API following on September 24). Peaked at ~1M users before collapsing to under 500K while burning ~$1M/day. OpenAI is freeing up compute for its coding and enterprise products, and the $1B Disney deal collapsed. app https://killedbyai.net/#openai-for-science https://killedbyai.net/#openai-for-science Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OpenAI's research initiative to apply frontier models to scientific discovery in biology, physics, and materials science. Dismantled alongside Sora as OpenAI shed 'side quests' to refocus compute on coding and enterprise products. Announced the same day product chief Kevin Weil and Sora head Bill Peebles departed. service