The Hallway Track

memory

11 tracked signals on memory.

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

Latent Space Blog · Aug 19, 2026

Memory prices up 500% in 12 months as hyperscalers lock in all 2027 DRAM production capacity

“Some are calling it the RAMpocalypse; I prefer "RAMageddon."”
Memory and Continual Learning: Engram's Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin

Sequoia Capital · Jun 24, 2026

Engram, a new lab from Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin, treats memory and continual learning as baking new context directly into model weights.

“We don't see the world through the lens of pre-training or post-training. Our models are always training.”
Project Lobster: Building an AI Assistant with Agency and Memory

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 03, 2026

Microsoft's Project Lobster is a cloud-based, always-on AI assistant with agency and memory that acts without user babysitting.

“I don't know that people fully grasp what it means to have a personal assistant that is has agency and judgment.”
5 Papers That Show Where AI Research Is Heading Right Now

Y Combinator · Jun 12, 2026

AlphaZero-style self-play, unbiased by human data, is the likely path to far more intelligent systems and possibly AGI.

“alpha zero unbiased by um humans meandering is uh the way we'll get to much more intelligent systems, maybe even dare say agi”
Hermes Architecture EXPLAINED: Memory, Context & Gateways

Hugging Face · Jun 17, 2026

A walkthrough explains the Hermes AI agent's architecture: agentic loop, memory, context, and messaging gateways.

“the gateway is the system that is always running that allows you to connect to your um Hermes agent via Telegram, email, Slack, etc.”