Our Story

Prior to 9/2023

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.

9/2023

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.

5/2024

Colleague AI soft launched and span off from the UW as an independent entity, managed by Hensun Innovation LLC.

7/2024

Hensun Innovation received NSF SBIR Phase I award to further develop Colleague AI.

10/2024

Colleague AI supports thousands of educators nationwide.

Estimated 03/2025

Student-facing version will be released.

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