Catalog Systems Research / specialised systems MemOS (MemTensor)

MemOS (MemTensor)

https://github.com/MemTensor/MemOS

Treats memory as an OS-managed resource with explicit allocation and process-like scoping. MemCubes unify parametric, activation, and plaintext memory.

Active · Verified 2026-10-23 · fresh as of 2026-10-23 · 26 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
"Memory operating system" + MemCubes repo fix
Tier
T3
Section
Research / specialised systems
Created
2025-07 repo fix
Latest release
v2.0.14 2026-04-23 repo fix
License
Apache-2.0 repo fix
GitHub
8.9k★ +113/mo TypeScript repo fix
Pricing
searched not found fix
Funding
not applicable — not commercial fix
Freshness
2026-10-23 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
open-source repo fix
Developer activity
OpenRank 8.33 (12-mo avg 13.32) · 46 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
Maintainer health
38 issues in 90 days, 66% answered or closed · 50 releases in 12 months (latest 2026-10-29) · bus factor 6 — as of 2026-11-01 repo

Memory taxonomy

storage
hybrid
retrieval
similarity
persistence
long-term
update
consolidation
unit
chunk
governance
inspectable
conflict
n/a

When to use

Optimised for: research positioning (see memory_model)

Anti-fit: not applicable - research paper

Pros & cons

Pros

Most architecturally ambitious 'memory operating system' to date — explicit memory cycle and substrate.

Cons

Chinese-market origin; less English-language adoption; production deployment evidence is light.

Claims & capabilities

V2.0 "Stardust" Dec 2025.

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — research paper
Backend storage
not applicable — research paper
Deployment
searched not found
Embedding model
not applicable — research paper
Multi-tenancy
not applicable — research paper
MCP
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
A2A
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
OpenTelemetry
not applicable — research paper, no deployed product

Similar systems

Other research / specialised systems in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.

  • A-MEM T3

    Treats memories as atomic linkable notes — explicit nod to Zettelkasten knowledge management. Dynamic linking; retroactive memory revision.

  • BAI-LAB MemoryOS T3

    Hierarchical "OS" with Storage / Updating / Retrieval / Generation modules. Short-term → mid-term via FIFO dialogue-chain; mid-term → long-term via segmented paging.

  • Titans (Google) T4

    Neural long-term memory module that learns to memorise at test time. Uses gradient-of-loss as "surprise" signal; adaptive weight-decay forgetting. Three variants: MAC (memory-as-context), MAG (memory-as-gate), MAL (memory-as-layer).

  • EverMemOS T4

    Self-organizing memory OS for structured long-horizon reasoning. Three-phase model: episodic, semantic, reconstructive.

  • EVOLVE-MEM T3

    Dynamic Memory Network + Hierarchical Memory Manager + Self-Improvement Engine. L0 raw embeddings, L1 contextual summaries, L2 high-level principles. NeurIPS 2025 (Scaling Environments for Agents workshop).

  • LiCoMemory T4

    Lightweight hierarchical graph (CogniGraph) with entities and relations as semantic indexing layers. Incremental graph construction, fast updates, low-latency inference. Nov 2025.

Sources (25 cited facts, 1 third-party)

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