| Founded | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Closed | 2022 |
| Country | USA |
| Sector | Ai |
| Total raised | ~$17M (Foundry Group, others) |
| Collapse type | Silent Shutdown |
| Founder | Adam Smith |
Kite
"The AI code completion tool with 500,000 developer users that shut down in November 2022 — killed by GitHub Copilot, the same technology it pioneered, built by the company whose code repositories fed its training data"
Quiet closure with no public announcement
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Kite was founded in 2014 by Adam Smith in San Francisco with an idea that proved to be perfectly correct and terminally early: machine learning models could predict what a developer was about to type, reducing repetitive coding work and helping engineers stay in flow.
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