Lessons from studying every memory system
A talk by Shlok Khemani about the memory systems behind ChatGPT,
Claude, Gemini, Poke, Granola, and other personal AI products.
What the talk covers
- Why memory is the foundation of personal AI
- How leading AI products store and retrieve user context
- The tradeoffs between model-managed and system-managed memory
- Design lessons for builders creating memory-enabled products
Related reading:
ChatGPT Memory and the Bitter Lesson,
Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy,
and Google Has Your Data. Gemini Barely Uses It.