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    LA Unified School District shelves its hyped AI chatbot to help students after collapse of firm that made it

    LOS ANGELES — A much vaunted AI chatbot — custom designed to help students thrive academically and parents navigate the complexities of Los Angeles public schools — has been turned off after the company that created it furloughed "the vast majority" of its staff. The school district said it dropped its dealings with AllHere, the company that created "Ed," the sun-shaped chatbot, after "we were ...
    by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2024 5 minutes
    Joanna Smith-Griffin, in center wearing blue suit, founder and then-CEO of AllHere Education, the company that co-created "Ed," the artificial intelligence chat bot for the Los Angeles Unified School District, listens as Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, left, speaks to reporters at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March...

    LOS ANGELES — A much vaunted AI chatbot — custom designed to help students thrive academically and parents navigate the complexities of Los Angeles public schools — has been turned off after the company that created it furloughed "the vast majority" of its staff.

    The school district said it dropped its dealings with AllHere, the company that created "Ed," the sun-shaped chatbot, after "we were notified of their financial collapse." AllHere did not respond to an inquiry this week from The Times and the level of its operation is unclear.

    In a separate development, has affected a data cloud company called Snowflake, which has worked with L.A. Unified. The district said Tuesday that there is no connection to the AllHere situation, and that it is working with investigative agencies to assess the damage and which district records were obtained through a

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