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Memory (AI)

Language models

An AI system's memory covers the mechanisms that let it retain information from one exchange to the next: user profile, preferences, action history. Since models have no native memory beyond their context window, it is built on the application side, often with a database or a vector database.

In practice at Gensai

Gensai gives its chatbots controlled memory: what is retained, for how long and with what consent is defined with the client.