Soul Machines
In receivership since 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman, appointed under a security deed held for convertible-note holders; NZ Gazette notice 2026-ar623); website still up. NZ/US digital-humans company. Patented Digital Brain simulates emotional state and learns from interactions. Cross-session Memories layer for user- and persona-specific context persistence. Deployed by ANZ Bank (Jamie) and Mercedes-Benz.
Archived · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 31 cited facts, 5 with a third-party source · 3 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Patented Digital Brain + cross-session memory vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Enterprise only vendor fix
- Funding
- $110M total (Series B1, 2023-02); placed in receivership 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman, appointed under a general security deed in favour of Bartok International Limited for convertible-note holders; NZ Gazette 2026-ar623) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- vector
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- cross-session
- update
- extraction
- unit
- episode
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: character consistency + narrative continuity + low-latency
Anti-fit: not for non-character / non-narrative use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Photoreal animated character platform with memory tuned for kiosk / customer-facing video deployments.
Cons
Heavyweight enterprise platform; cost and integration burden high.
Claims & capabilities
Fortune 500 enterprise clients. Azure Marketplace.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
- A2A
- no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
- OpenTelemetry
- no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented
Alternatives to Soul Machines → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
Other vertical / domain-specific ai memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Inworld AI T1
Formerly an NPC character engine with named Long-Term Memory; now sells realtime voice models (TTS-2, STT-1, speech-to-speech) and OpenAI-compatible open-model inference. Character/NPC memory is no longer the headline product.
- NVIDIA ReMEmbR T3
Builds long-horizon memory by captioning video segments with VILA, storing captions with timestamps + 3D position coordinates in MilvusDB. At query time, LLM iterates retrieval across text, time, and position modalities. Deployed on Nova Carter robot (Jetson Orin).
- Abridge T1
Clinician-assist ambient documentation. Source mapping: every AI-generated summary element traced back to the source utterance. Audit-and-trust layer over episodic memory. Built on proprietary 1.5M+ medical-encounter dataset.
- ASAPP GenerativeAgent T1
Treats memory as first-class architecture. Captures the digital footprint of every interaction; retrieves preference and history at engagement time. Public example: airline knowing a frequent flyer wants aisle seats with her son — preference-aware, not just history-lookup.
- BenevolentAI T1
Taken private: merged into Osaka Holdings (renamed BenevolentAI S.A.) and delisted from Euronext Amsterdam 2025-03-13. Target identification / drug repurposing / mechanism tracing. 85+ data sources, petabyte-scale, rebuilt every few weeks. Wet-lab results re-enter the graph and shift downstream predictions — institutional experimental memory closing a feedback loop. As of Oct 2026 benevolent.com leads with Qor, powered by BenevolentAI, a life-science intelligence service for biopharma decision makers and consultancies. Qor (qor.one) is a continuously updated decision-intelligence service built on BenevolentAI's knowledge graph and reasoning methods: it tracks evidence on an asset or indication (competitive position, rival readouts, comparable deals), source-verifies each claim and flags when an earlier conclusion stops holding. It targets biotech teams and life-science consultancies.
- Causaly T1
Agentic AI platform for life sciences: orchestrated scientific agents over a curated biomedical knowledge graph (plus Bio Graph and Pipeline Graph), an evidence-retrieval system and an enterprise data fabric over literature, trials and patents.
Sources (30 cited facts, 5 third-party)
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- What it is Patented Digital Brain + cross-session memory vendor
- What it does & what's distinct In receivership since 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman, appointed … third-party
- Claims / benefits Fortune 500 enterprise clients. Azure Marketplace. vendor
- Modalities voice + text vendor
- Created 2020-01 third-party
- Funding $110M total (Series B1, 2023-02); placed in receivership 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon… third-party
- Customers / scale 101-200 ppl vendor
- Pricing Enterprise only vendor
- Compliance Privacy policy + Data Retention Policy published vendor
- Data handling Separate Privacy Policy and Data Retention Policy; requires actor consent for face scan … vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ NZ third-party
- Founders / pedigree Mark Sagar (co-founder; double Academy Award winner; ex-Weta Digital) and Greg Cross (co… third-party
- Memory volume / scale internal — undisclosed (Fortune 500 enterprise clients) vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves and overwrites vendor
- Validated verticals gaming (AAA + indie), interactive narrative, AI companions vendor
- Time to running <10min (SDK download / hosted API) vendor
- Anti-fit not for non-character / non-narrative use cases vendor
- Optimised for character consistency + narrative continuity + low-latency vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure requires game engine integration (Unity / Unreal); BYO LLM vendor
- Pros Photoreal animated character platform with memory tuned for kiosk / customer-facing vide… vendor
- Cons Heavyweight enterprise platform; cost and integration burden high. vendor
- Project & sources soulmachines.com vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Funding / ownership “$110M total (Series B1, 2023-02); placed in receivership 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman)” → “$110M total (Series B1, 2023-02); placed in receivership 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman, appointed under a general security deed in favour of Bartok International Limited for convertible-note holders; NZ Gazette 2026-ar623)” source
- 2026-10-23
- Funding / ownership “$110M total Series B1 · 2023-02” → “$110M total (Series B1, 2023-02); placed in receivership 2026-02-05 (KPMG receivers Leon Bowker and Luke Norman)” source
- 2026-10-22
- Lifecycle first recorded as “archived”