Open model (Llama-3.1-405B, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen-2.5-72B)
Fine-tuned on your data only
Raw logs of everything you ever said/did/screen-recorded
Local vector DB (Chroma/LanceDB) + full-text search
Hierarchical compressed knowledge (facts, beliefs, preferences)
Recursive summarization + GNN or Hyena-based memory
A small specialist LLM (1–7B) that decides what to store, compress, retrieve, forget
LongLLMLingua + learned retrieval policy (RL-trained)
Continually updates the base model or a LoRA adapter while you use it
LLaMA-Adapter v2, LoRA+, or continual pre-training on new episodes
Rewards correct recall, good summarization, fast retrieval
GRPO (Generalized PPO) or online DPO on user feedback (thumbs up/down)
Live LoRA that grows/shrinks or full-weight online fine-tuning
QLoRA merging every 4–24 h or Receptance-Tuned updates (almost free)
MemGPT (2023→2025) – paging + self-editing memory
CogArch – hierarchical memory + continual LoRA
LongMemEval frameworks – benchmarks exactly this
BabyAGI / Auto-GPT successors with memory modules
Rewind / Limelight – full screen+audio memory → compressed
1M–10M token native context → No more compression hacks needed for personal history
100–500 pages max per session ==> Entire life archive (~7,500 pages)
Compute Cost: Quadratic scaling → $0.01–0.10/M tokens ==> Optimized MoE → 2–5x cheaper inference
Accuracy: "Lost in middle" errors ==> Uniform attention; <5% degradation
Online gradient updates stable on consumer hardware → True lifelong learning without catastrophic forgetting
Personal Agents: Weekly batch updates ==> Real-time tweaks on phone
Hardware Needs: Data center GPUs ==> Stable on 16–32GB VRAM (consumer)
Forgetting Rate: 50–90% on new tasks ==> <5% via replay + regularization
Sparse + content-addressable memory (like Transformer-XL + Hippocampus models) → Human-level episodic → semantic conversion
Sparse = activate only key neurons (e.g., 1–10% of params); content-addressable = query by meaning, not position (like brain's hippocampus indexing events).
Memory Efficiency: Dense storage → high VRAM ==> Sparse → milliwatt-level on devices
Retrieval Speed: Keyword search ==> Semantic query → instant recall
Conversion Fidelity: 70–80% accuracy ==> 95%+ human-like abstraction
Ollama + OpenWebUI + AnythingLLM + AutoLoRA script
$0 (run on laptop)
Llama-3.1-70B + LanceDB + MemGPT + continual QLoRA
RTX 4090 or A6000 (~$3k)
Llama-3.1-405B + Hyena-memory + GRPO online training
8×H100 pod (~$30k/month) or consumer cluster with 4×4090
RWKV-6-World + infinite-context + online MDL training
Research only right now
Audio → transcription → raw episodic chunk
Memory Controller reads it → decides:
Compress meeting notes → store in semantic memory
Extract 3 new facts about your preferences → update LoRA
Tag emotionally important moments → higher retrieval weight
User later asks "What did Anna say about the budget?"
→ Memory Controller runs a 1–2-second query → pulls only 2 relevant chunks + 1 summary
→ Injects <4k tokens into base model → perfect recall