Some of the notable AI services have been sunset, both in the US and in China.
In March 2026, Sora shutdown was officially announced. The consumer web and app experiences were shut down on April 26, 2026, while the developer API will end on September 24, 2026.
In Sep 2025, 秒鸭相机 (owned by Alibaba) has dissolved the team and news broke out in May 2026.
Baidu’s 文心一言 / Yiyan / Ernie Bot commercialization (membership-based) has not worked; Baidu announced the sunset of paid membership in Feb 2025 and began refund in Apr 2025. The chat function of frontier LLMs in China is basically free for all, but the paid subscription had previously cost about RMB 59.9 per month.
Yiyan service itself has been moved/remade/rebranded.
There are many more.
e.g. in China
| Product | Company | Type | Date/status | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glow | MiniMax | AI companion | March 2023 | Removed following complaints involving sensitive content and privacy. It never returned under the Glow name; MiniMax later launched 星野. (21 Economic Net) |
| Trik AI | Xiaohongshu | AI image generation | Late 2023 | Shut after controversy and litigation over artists’ work; Xiaohongshu subsequently launched 奇域AI. (36Kr) |
| 未伴 | Tencent Music/QQ Music | AI companion and social app | June 2024 | Removed amid regulatory scrutiny of AI-companion content. Mainland services were discontinued rather than merely renamed. (21 Economic Net) |
| 腾讯翻译君 | Tencent | AI translation | March 13, 2025 | Web, app and mini-program all ceased operating. Translation functionality increasingly became part of 元宝 and Tencent’s larger products. (36Kr) |
| 万物追踪 | MiniMax | AI information monitoring | Around April 2025 | Entered public testing in January 2025 and was comprehensively delisted less than three months later. (36Kr) |
| 鹿班智能设计 | Alibaba | Automated advertising/design | June 30, 2025 | All services ended after Alibaba had already stopped purchases and renewals. (36Kr) |
| 奇域AI | Xiaohongshu | Chinese-style AI images | June 30, 2025 | Standalone service closed; some functionality was transferred to Xiaohongshu’s 镜构 mini-program. (36Kr) |
| 腾讯智影 | Tencent | AI video and digital humans | June 30, 2025 | Officially described as a platform “renovation,” but login ended, user data was cleared and its official account was later cancelled. This is best treated as an effective indefinite closure. (36Kr) |
| 异世界回响 | Soul | AI character companion | Around September 2025 | Reported withdrawn/stopped as Soul reduced its standalone AI-companion experiments. The exact final server date was not clearly published. (36Kr) |
| 狸谱 | Independent startup | AIGC anime and fan-art community | October 31, 2025 | Officially ceased operation despite reportedly reaching around one million monthly active users during its peak. (36Kr) |
| 冒泡鸭 | StepFun/阶跃星辰 | AI role-play companion | November 5, 2025 | Formally stopped operating after exceeding six million cumulative downloads, according to third-party app data cited by Chinese media. (36Kr) |
| 讯飞写作 | iFlytek | AI writing | November 30, 2025 | Officially terminated; users were instructed to export their content before closure. (36Kr) |
| XEVA / X Eva | Xiaoice/小冰 | AI clones and companionship | November 30, 2025 | Ended all operating services. (36Kr) |
| Wow AI | Meituan | AI friend and character chat | December 18, 2025 | Servers closed and users could no longer access their accounts. (36Kr) |
| 纸飞机AI | ModelBest/面壁智能 | AI companion | Reported exited in 2025 | Included in the 2025 shutdown census, although no precise public server-closure date was located. (36Kr) |
| momoAI | 清杉信息 | AI companion | Reported exited in 2025 | Listed among discontinued or withdrawn AI-companion products; detailed closure documentation is limited. (36Kr) |
| 我在AI | 有零科技 | AI companion | Reported exited in 2025 | Reported as withdrawn or no longer maintained; no clear public final-service notice was found. (36Kr) |
| AiU 爱哟 | Zhipu AI/智谱 | AI companion | Reported exited in H2 2025 | Standalone companion experiment was withdrawn as Zhipu concentrated resources elsewhere. Exact date is unclear. (36Kr) |
| Lumi 噜米 | 禹幻科技 | AI emotional companion | Reported exited in H2 2025 | Included in the companion-app withdrawal wave, but its final backend-shutdown date was not publicly documented. (36Kr) |
| 梯子AI | Baidu | AI search | March 4, 2026 | Shut after operating for roughly six months; its site and app-store listings disappeared and functions moved into the 文心 app. (Sina Finance) |
Some have become “zombies”.
| Product | Company | Condition as of June 30, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 胃之书 | Independent team | Had gone at least five months without an update by late 2025; user-feedback groups were reportedly nonfunctional or muted. No formal shutdown announcement, but it appeared close to natural abandonment. (36Kr) |
| AskXBOT | 澜码科技 | The company experienced unpaid wages, staff reductions and severe financing problems. AskXBOT appeared stalled, although the company website remained accessible, so it cannot be called a clean server shutdown. (Sina Finance) |
| Vega AI | Independent team | Included in the Chinese-media census of delisted or long-unmaintained AI applications. I found no reliable official closure notice or exact date. (36Kr) |
| 开搜AI | 快搜-related team | Listed as delisted or long-term unmaintained, but public evidence is insufficient to establish a precise final shutdown date. (36Kr) |
| 晓象 | Startup project | Reportedly encountered major operating and financing problems. Its product activity appears substantially stalled, but evidence does not support a precise “servers shut on X date” claim. (36Kr) |
| 小星星AI陪练 | 星星趣弹 | Included in the 2025 inactive-app census, but third-party download pages continued to appear. I would label it unconfirmed/inactive, rather than fully closed. (36Kr) |
Many can be found in the US.
| Product | What it did | Shutdown date | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huxe | Turned emails, calendars, webpages and prompts into personalized AI audio briefings/podcasts | May 28, 2026 | Removed from the app stores and stopped functioning. The founders said the team was moving on and would discontinue the product. (TechCrunch) |
| Rewind | Mac app that continuously recorded and made users’ screen and audio history searchable | December 19, 2025 | Following Meta’s acquisition of Limitless, the Rewind app’s screen and audio capture was disabled. Limitless’s Pendant service continued for existing users in supported regions, so only Rewind and other non-Pendant functionality were sunset. (Limitless) |
| Yara AI | AI mental-wellness and therapy-style chatbot | By November 2025 | The founder voluntarily wound down the service, citing concerns that AI chatbots were not safe enough for people experiencing serious mental-health situations. Its website now carries a farewell notice and directs users to other resources. (Yara AI) |
| Dot by New Computer | Personalized AI friend, confidante and companion | October 5, 2025 | New Computer sunset Dot after its co-founders decided to pursue different directions. Users were given one month to export their conversations and other data. (TechCrunch) |
| Woebot consumer app | CBT-based mental-health chatbot | June 30, 2025 | The direct-to-consumer Woebot app was retired; existing accounts became inaccessible. Woebot Health itself did not entirely disappear and continued working on institutional and provider-oriented applications. (Woebot Health) |
| Builder.ai | Claimed to use AI to make developing apps and websites easier | Operations collapsed in May 2025 | The Microsoft-backed company entered insolvency after financial problems, debt defaults and frozen or seized cash left it unable to continue operating normally. Its main U.S. entity subsequently filed for bankruptcy in June. (Financial Times) |
| Humane Ai Pin services | Screenless wearable assistant for AI queries, calls, messages and cloud-stored content | February 28, 2025 | Humane sold key assets to HP and switched off its servers. Calling, messaging, AI responses and cloud access stopped working, leaving most Pins substantially unusable. (The Verge) |
| Coqui AI commercial operations | AI voice generation, speech synthesis and voice cloning | January 2024 | The startup and its hosted commercial services shut down amid funding and monetization difficulties. The underlying open-source TTS code survived through community forks, so the technology itself did not vanish. (GitHub) |
| Artifact | AI-personalized news reader created by Instagram’s co-founders | Wound down during 2024 | Artifact announced that its market opportunity was insufficient and began winding down its app. Its core news reader remained alive longer than originally planned, before Yahoo acquired its technology and incorporated elements into Yahoo News. (Medium) |
| OpenAI AI Text Classifier | Website that attempted to identify whether text was written by AI | July 20, 2023 | OpenAI withdrew it because of its low accuracy rate. It was a particularly clean example of a product being shut down because the underlying AI simply did not work reliably enough. (OpenAI) |
| Neeva consumer search | Subscription-based, ad-free search engine that added generative-AI answers and citations | June 2, 2023 | Neeva could not attract enough users to make the consumer search business sustainable. The search website closed, user data was deleted and the company’s technology and team subsequently moved to Snowflake. (Search Engine Land) |