Dedicated memory layers

50 systems in the dedicated memory layers category of the AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape, grouped by maturity tier.

Tier 1 — battle-tested (11)

  • 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

    Back-office operations platform where agents and domain experts triage and resolve cases; each resolved case feeds a context graph, and a 'MemoryRank' component reuses prior successful cases to route new work.

  • Letta / MemGPT Tiered: core / recall / archival

    Originated as MemGPT (UC Berkeley), where the model pages its own memory between context, recall and archival tiers. The product now centres on Letta Code, a stateful agent harness whose agents rewrite their own memory, skills and prompt…

  • 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 (now Anda Brain) Bio-inspired sleep consolidation

    Renamed Anda Brain (repo now ldclabs/anda-brain). Native graph-based memory for autonomous AI agents. Bio-inspired sleep-based memory consolidation. The hosted service brain.anda.ai has been discontinued; Anda Brain is now self-hosted on…

  • 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

    Stateful AI API combining persistent memory, RAG, web search and routing across many LLMs behind one interface, with SDKs for Python and npm; benchmarks its memory on LoCoMo and LongMemEval. As of Oct 2026 Backboard positions itself as a…

  • ByteRover Agent memory product

    Agent-memory product. LLM-curated hierarchical context. Now ships as ByteRover Desktop (V4) with cloud-synced spaces for agents and teammates; the open-source CLI repo campfirein/byterover-cli is archived.

  • 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) (now ByteRover CLI) Cross-IDE memory layer (vector + KG)

    Renamed ByteRover CLI (brv); repo campfirein/byterover-cli archived read-only 2026-09-27, license changed to Elastic License 2.0. Opensource memory layer focused on programming agents — works with Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Roo Code …

  • Hyperspell Workplace agent memory connectors

    YC F25 'company brain': connects 50+ sources (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Drive...) into a permission-aware context graph served to agents via API/SDK, returning structured results or LLM-ready summaries; learns from queries over time.

  • Krutrim Kruti (Ola) Cross-session multimodal agentic memory

    Offline since Apr 2026 (pulled from app stores and the Ola platform per press reports); Ola Krutrim's own Kruti page says (checked 2026-10-29) that Kruti AI is under maintenance and will be back shortly, with no official shutdown stateme…

  • 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 professo…

  • 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 (now MemStore) Cross-agent shared episodic + preference memory

    Renamed MemStore (memory.store now redirects to mem.store); YC Spring 2026. Shared memory layer delivered as an MCP server: a team's AI agents record decisions/progress across sessions and recall from teammates' stores with sources attac…

  • 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 (now Walrus Memory) 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 (now NVIDIA CMX Context Memory Storage Platform) Hardware-accelerated cluster KV-cache storage tier

    Renamed NVIDIA CMX Context Memory Storage Platform (2026). A BlueField-4 (STX) powered "AI-native context tier" that extends GPU memory with a shared pod-level KV-cache tier for long-context, multi-turn agentic inference, with Dynamo rou…

  • Nyne Human-profile / people-graph memory

    Now positioned as 'The data factory for AI': connects AI labs with licensed data and an expert network, built on an identity graph of ~2.2B people and 380M businesses; people-data APIs (identity resolution, enrichment, search) for applic…

  • O-Mem Omni / self-evolving memory

    Omni memory system for personalised, long-horizon, self-evolving agents. From OPPO PersonalAI.

  • OMEGA Memory engine + 50ms retrieval

    Local context/memory engine for coding agents: stores decisions, docs and agent history on-machine (SQLite + local ONNX embeddings) and serves a ranked slice per task over MCP. Open-core Apache-2.0 core with paid Pro tier.

  • OpenMemory (now LongMemory) Cognitive memory engine

    Renamed LongMemory (repo CaviraOSS/LongMemory; packages longmemory / longmemory-sdk, with openmemory-js@2 / openmemory-py@2 as forwarding bridges). 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 (11)

  • Acontext (memodb) Framework

    'Agent Skills as a Memory Layer': an open-source skill-memory layer that stores what agents learn as agent skill files. Built by the Memobase team. The README now says Acontext is no longer maintained; the team has moved on to alook.ai.

  • gbrain (Garry Tan) Framework

    Open-source agent 'brain' storing explicit sourced facts with corrections and withdrawals, shared across agents; built as the memory for OpenClaw/Hermes agents. author is YC CEO; listed #6 in TeleAI Awesome-Agent-Memory

  • Honcho (Plastic Labs) Product

    Memory library/service for stateful agents that reasons over stored messages to build 'peer' representations (theory-of-mind style user models) queryable via a dialectic API; used as Hermes Agent's and OpenClaw's user-modelling backend. …

  • Memanto (Moorcheh) Framework

    A 'memory agent' that manages other agents' memories, deciding what to keep, what conflicts, what expires and who needs to know; runs locally (Docker/Ollama) or as a free cloud. self-reported 89.8% LongMemEval / 87.1% LoCoMo

  • Memori (GibsonAI) (now Memori Labs) OSS memory layer (SQL-first)

    Now Memori by Memori Labs (repo moved to MemoriLabs/Memori; adds managed Memori Cloud and BYODB). SQL-native memory engine for AI agents — single library, opt-in conscious/auto modes, structured Pydantic outputs. Aims to be 'one line of …

  • MemoryBear Framework

    Open-source memory system modelled on human cognition, with perception, extraction, association and forgetting stages; also offered as a hosted product. #18 in TeleAI Awesome-Agent-Memory

  • memU (NevaMind) Framework

    Lightweight agent memory system that builds a shared, file-like 'memory wiki' across sessions, agents and devices and can extract reusable skills from agent history; also offered as a hosted service (memu.pro). #9 on GitHub agent-memory …

  • Neo4j Agent Memory (Neo4j Labs) Framework

    Neo4j Labs' graph-native agent memory library (Python and TypeScript) that stores conversations, builds knowledge/context graphs and records agent reasoning traces to learn from. Also available as NAMS, a hosted memory service (memory.ne…

  • OpenViking (ByteDance Volcengine) Framework

    Open-source 'context database' from ByteDance's Volcengine that unifies agent memory, RAG knowledge and skills behind a virtual filesystem (viking:// URIs) with tiered loading and self-evolving context. #6 on GitHub agent-memory topic; l…

  • Redis Agent Memory Server Framework

    Redis's original open-source working + long-term memory server for agents (REST and MCP), with automatic extraction, semantic search and topic/entity tagging; also used to give Snowflake Cortex Agents persistent memory. Superseded by Red…

  • TencentDB Agent Memory Framework

    Tencent's team-level memory hub that turns conversations, docs and code into four reusable memory assets: chat memory, skills, an LLM-wiki and a code graph. big-tech vendor

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.