AI Graveyard / 2018

AI tools that died in 2018

2 AI tools shut down, were acquired and folded, or had their domains lapse in 2018. Curated by the ToolDirectory.AI editorial team — every entry was a real product listed on the site before its lights went out.

  • Socratic
    Socratic
    Acquired

    Mar 2018

    AI-powered homework assistance for various subjects. The product has since been folded into Lens; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to lens.google.

    Acquired by Google.

  • Flatiron Health
    Flatiron Health
    Acquired

    Feb 2018

    Still operating. Roche announced a definitive agreement to acquire Flatiron Health on February 15, 2018 and closed the $1.9B deal on April 6, 2018. Flatiron runs as an independent affiliate of the Roche Group and has kept building: its oncology dataset now spans more than five million patient records and 1.5 billion datapoints, and it tripled its international network across the UK, Germany and Japan.

    Acquired by Roche.

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