In 2023, I wrote about a gold rush . At the time, a flood of AI-powered interior design apps were coming online, racing to reimagine America’s uninspired living rooms. There was some variety—some were scrappy operations, one was launched by Venus Williams —but the basic idea was the same: Put generative AI to work to deliver interior design to consumers on the cheap. Two years later, and the race is over. None of them won.

To be clear, most of these companies are still in business—and even now, there are new players entering the space. No one who Googles “AI interior design” will be hard up for options. And there have been some small improvements. These tools once subtracted and added windows and doors from a room at random—something that happens less often when using them today.

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