Dedicated memory layers
41 systems in the dedicated memory layers category of the AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape, grouped by maturity tier.
Tier 1 — battle-tested (12)
- Aleph Alpha PhariaAI / PhariaCatch Sovereign governed-document memory
German enterprise stack. PhariaCatch captures + preserves organisational knowledge through structured human-machine collaboration; PhariaAssistant queries via semantic search. Combines sovereign deployment constraints with explainability…
- Cognee Knowledge graph + ECL pipeline
"Extract–Cognify–Load" pipeline that turns raw input into a typed, queryable knowledge graph for agent recall.
- Hindsight (Vectorize) Vector + reflection / summarisation
Standalone memory service from Vectorize. Open source. Biomimetic four-network design (World, Bank, Observation, Opinion). Ships an MCP memory server.
- Interloom Enterprise tacit-knowledge memory
German startup. Captures how real work is performed across enterprise systems and teams; converts process knowledge into a persistent memory layer agents use to automate complex workflows. Targets the tacit-knowledge gap that agents curr…
- Jamba (AI21 Labs) SSM-Transformer hybrid + 256K KV-bypass context
Israeli production model. Interleaves Mamba SSM layers with Transformer attention (1:7 ratio) + MoE blocks every 2 layers. SSM layers maintain fixed-size recurrent hidden state — compressed long-context memory bypassing growing KV cache.
- Letta / MemGPT Tiered: core / recall / archival
LLM-as-Operating-System paradigm — model manages its own memory, paging between core context, recall buffer, and archival store. UC Berkeley origin; transitioning to letta_v1_agent .
- Mem0 Vector + graph + KV (hybrid)
Universal memory layer for AI agents. Three concurrent stores (vector + graph + KV); LLM-extracted facts; concurrent retrieval via ThreadPoolExecutor.
- NAVER HyperCLOVA X THINK Korean sovereign 128K reasoning LLM
Reasoning-focused successor to HyperCLOVA X. Pre-trained on ~6T high-quality Korean + English tokens. 128K context via rotary position embeddings + grouped-query attention. Sovereign reasoning LLM for Korean enterprises and government.
- NeoCognition World-model / experiential self-learning memory
Builds agents that learn from experience by constructing a "world model" of the micro-environment they operate in. Specialise over time through Agentic RL loop rather than relying on static prompt context. Targets the ~50% task-completio…
- SuperLocalMemory Local-geometric / privacy-first / no LLM scoring
Cloud-free agent memory using information-geometric retrieval (Fisher-Rao distance + BM25 + entity graph + temporal fusion via 4-channel RRF) instead of LLM calls for scoring and lifecycle. Mode A is the only system to cross 70% LoCoMo w…
- Supermemory Memory graph + extraction + RAG
Memory engine with API, app, browser extension, and MCP server. Extracts facts, tracks updates, resolves contradictions, auto-forgets expired info. Plugins for Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes.
- Zep & Graphiti Bi-temporal knowledge graph
Bi-temporal knowledge graph (event time + ingestion time). Strong on chronological reasoning and contradiction tracking. Graphiti is the open-source core.
Tier 2 — production-ready (27)
- AI Singapore SEA-LION SE-Asian cross-lingual semantic-retrieval memory
SEA-LION-Embedding (March 2026): retrieval + reranking models contrastively trained on 245M text pairs across 10 SE Asian languages. SEA-BED benchmark (169 datasets). SEA-LION v4 (Gemma-based) at 128K context with native function calling.
- Anda Hippocampus Bio-inspired sleep consolidation
Native graph-based memory for autonomous AI agents. Bio-inspired sleep-based memory consolidation.
- AutoGLM (Zhipu AI) GUI agent + cross-session task memory
Tsinghua spinout. Foundation agent series for autonomous smartphone/PC GUI control. Persistent task memory retains shopping history, app usage patterns, multi-step task state across sessions. AutoGLM-Thinking claimed first agent capable …
- Backboard Memory + LoCoMo evaluation harness
Agent memory product evaluated against LoCoMo.
- ByteRover Agent memory product
Agent-memory product. LLM-curated hierarchical context.
- Cellon (Memory.inc) Cross-service context stitching / retrieval memory
Korean startup. Connects scattered internal/external data across multiple chats and services to improve AI answer quality at retrieval. 18-year-old CEO Jang Jun-ha; pitch is that answer quality depends on what the model remembers, not wh…
- Cipher (byterover) Cross-IDE memory layer (vector + KG)
Opensource memory layer focused on programming agents — works with Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Roo Code via MCP. Maintains a coding-context memory across sessions and across IDEs.
- Hyperspell Workplace agent memory connectors
Connects Slack, Gmail, Notion, Drive so agents can recall and reason across company knowledge.
- Krutrim Kruti (Ola) Cross-session multimodal agentic memory
India's first agentic AI assistant. Persistent memory of prior interactions across sessions; accepts voice/text/image/document input building continuous context. Decomposes goals into sub-tasks executed by parallel/sequential agent chains.
- M3-Agent (ByteDance) Episodic + semantic multimodal memory graph
ByteDance Seed + Zhejiang Univ + SJTU. Multimodal agent with long-term memory as entity-centric graph built from live video + audio streams. Parallel memorisation + control processes. Ships M3-Bench evaluation dataset.
- Memary Long-term memory for autonomous agents
Open-source long-term memory framework for autonomous agents.
- MemMachine Multi-layered memory system
Multi-layered open-source memory system for AI agents.
- Memobase User profile + event timeline
User-profile-based long-term memory. Per-user profile + event timeline. API + Python/Node/Go SDKs + MCP server. Profile-centric rather than fact-centric.
- MemoraX AI Endogenous / in-model memory (no external bank)
Shenzhen. Argues attaching external vector stores is architecturally flawed; trains memory as an intrinsic capability via Agentic RL. Plans B2B enterprise KM and C2C personalisation in 12 months. Founded by Tianjin University AI professor.
- Memori Structured persistent memory layer
Structured, persistent memory layer for AI agents. Open source.
- Memoria (MatrixOrigin) Retrieval-strong memory layer
Memory layer from MatrixOrigin. Strong-retrieval / clear-reader-separation design.
- Memory Store Cross-agent shared episodic + preference memory
YC P26 (Spring 2026). Unified memory layer so all agents on a team share one persistent context — meetings, Claude sessions, Slack threads all become queryable. Solves the "goldfish brain" problem of every session starting from zero.
- Memvid Single-file append-only Smart Frames
Single-file memory layer (one .mv2 file). No DB, no server. Append-only sequence of immutable Smart Frames with timestamps + checksums. Native Rust core (rewritten from Python).
- MemWal (Walrus) Decentralised / verifiable on-chain agent memory
Walrus is a Sui-blockchain decentralised storage protocol; MemWal is its AI-facing SDK that stores encrypted agent memory on-chain — portable, verifiable, shareable across agent systems with no single-vendor lock-in. Targets production a…
- NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform Hardware-accelerated cluster KV-cache storage tier
AI-native storage tier for gigascale agentic inference. Bridges GPU HBM and general-purpose storage with petabyte-scale RDMA-accelerated KV-cache placement; coordinated via DOCA, Spectrum-X Ethernet, NIXL library, Dynamo software. Aligne…
- Nyne Human-profile / people-graph memory
Deploys agents across the web to build structured profiles of individuals from public digital footprint, then feeds the people graph into AI agents as contextual memory so they understand users before any conversation starts.
- O-Mem Omni / self-evolving memory
Omni memory system for personalised, long-horizon, self-evolving agents. From OPPO PersonalAI.
- OMEGA Memory engine + 50ms retrieval
Memory engine product. Pitch is high-accuracy retrieval at very low latency.
- OpenMemory Cognitive memory engine
Open-source cognitive memory engine for LLMs and agents.
- Pieces for Developers (LTM) On-device long-term memory for IDEs
Long-term memory engine for developers — captures everything the user does (browser, IDE, terminal) on-device, exposes via MCP for any IDE/agent.
- Trace Context-graph / KG memory
YC S25 + $3M seed (Feb 2026). Workflow orchestration mapping corporate environments as a structured context graph so agents always have institutional knowledge for tasks. CTO frames differentiator as "context engineering."
- VEKTOR Memory Local-SQLite + AUDN-loop + TypeScript-native
Node.js/TypeScript-native memory layer. SQLite + local Transformers.js embeddings (~80MB model via WebAssembly). AUDN loop (Add/Update/Delete/None) resolves contradictions before write rather than at retrieval — read-after-write consiste…
Tier 3 — emerging (1)
- Memori (GibsonAI) OSS memory layer (SQL-first)
SQL-native memory engine for AI agents — single library, opt-in conscious/auto modes, structured Pydantic outputs. Aims to be 'one line of code' to add memory to any LLM workflow.
Tier 4 — early / experimental (1)
- Memoripy Python OSS memory library (short+long term)
Memory layer for AI assistants — semantic short-term and long-term memory with concept-graph linking and decay/reinforcement.