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Charles Packer and Sarah Wooders met as PhD students at the Sky Computing Lab at Berkeley, where they shared an advisor. Charles studied reinforcement learning, while Sarah focused on AI and data systems. Despite working in different fields, Sarah and Charles shared an interest in experimenting   with chatbots.  They realized that immersive chatbot experiences benefitted from  extended context windows,  but that the universal constraint of all language models was limited context. How could they manage context –   or, memory  – in a way that enabled agents to be truly useful, and better yet, to gain utility over time?



Packer and Wooders introduced  MemGPT  in a research paper in October 2023, a system that intelligently manages different memory tiers in order to effectively provide extended context within a language model’s limited window. The paper and the open-source project went viral, proving Packer and Wooders’ hypothesis about stateful APIs overtaking stateless builds as the industry evolves.

Charles Packer and Sarah Wooders met as PhD students at the Sky Computing Lab at Berkeley, where they shared an advisor. Charles studied reinforcement learning, while Sarah focused on AI and data systems. Despite working in different fields, Sarah and Charles shared an interest in experimenting  with chatbots. They realized that immersive chatbot experiences benefitted from extended context windows, but that the universal constraint of all language models was limited context. How could they manage context – or, memory – in a way that enabled agents to be truly useful, and better yet, to gain utility over time?


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Packer and Wooders introduced MemGPT in a research paper in October 2023, a system that intelligently manages different memory tiers in order to effectively provide extended context within a language model’s limited window. The paper and the open-source project went viral, proving Packer and Wooders’ hypothesis about stateful APIs overtaking stateless builds as the industry evolves.