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OpenAI released a public classifier in January 2023 to help educators and editors judge whether text was AI-written, describing it as a stopgap while better provenance methods were researched. In July 2023 the company m…
Copilot Voice — originally shown as "Hey, GitHub!" — was a voice-driven coding experiment from GitHub Next, framed as an accessibility tool for developers who have difficulty typing. It ran as a technical preview and en…
AI Test Kitchen launched in August 2022 as a small set of LaMDA demos the public could try. It later hosted MusicLM and dropped the earlier demos. In August 2023 Google delisted the Android and iOS apps and confirmed th…
The Ai Pin was Humane's attempt to replace the phone screen with a voice-first wearable: a lapel device that projected answers onto the wearer's palm and ran on Humane's CosmOS. It began reaching customers in April 2024…
Kite was a startup that used machine learning to help developers write code, running from 2014 until it stopped working on the product in 2022. Its founder's farewell post is an unusually explicit post-mortem: the compa…
AI Shell was Microsoft's attempt to bring LLM agents into the terminal: an interactive shell plus a PowerShell module that let you ask for a command in natural language, keep an agent pane beside your prompt, and hand r…
Cortana was Microsoft's voice assistant, introduced in April 2014 alongside Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft retired it in stages rather than at once: the standalone Cortana app in Windows went in spring 2023, the Microsoft…
Dot was an AI companion app built by New Computer around a simple premise: a computer that understands you and keeps a memory of your life. In September 2025 the founders announced they were winding down both the compan…
ChatGPT Plugins were OpenAI's first mechanism for letting ChatGPT reach beyond its own weights: tools that could fetch current information, run computations or call third-party services. The platform was announced in Ma…
DALL·E 2 and DALL·E 3 were the image-generation models OpenAI exposed through its API. OpenAI's own deprecation register records that developers were notified on 14 November 2025 that both snapshots would be removed on …