



Research projects at UW focused on specialized AI/ML model developments and initial prototyping with educators, supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) PFT-TT award.
A university-industry partnership between UW and Hensun Innovation LLC started to engineer educator-facing version and conducted user testing with 20 educators, supported by a NSF CORE award.
Colleague AI soft launched and span off from the UW as an independent entity, managed by Hensun Innovation LLC.
Hensun Innovation received NSF SBIR Phase I award to further develop Colleague AI.
Colleague AI received new funding from prestigious foundations, as part of a university-industry partnership that was awarded a total of approximately $14M from IES of the U.S. Department of Education, NSF, and the Gates Foundation.
Colleague AI supports thousands of educators nationwide.
Student-facing version will be released.