CEO at @Letta_AI, prev PhD at UC Berkeley (MemGPT, RL, agents)

SF
Memory is one of the biggest unsolved challenges in AI today. @Letta_AI’s FrontierMemory is the first benchmark to measure AI memory by downstream task performance, across models and harnesses. Amazing work team @Letta_AI 👏👏 cc @khoslaventures @vkhosla
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Most memory benchmarks test recall and not synthesis. My former students just launched an exciting new memory benchmark that evaluates whether agents can continually learn from past experiences.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Recommended reading and a super-interesting benchmark for measuring continual learning capabilities through memory. Agent memory is largely unsolved. As agents advance in capabilities like long-horizon work, it's unclear which models or harnesses work best, or which memory systems and types to use. Opus 5.5 at the top is not a surprise. But it's exciting that open-weight models like GLM-5.3 perform so well on memory generation. My big question is how this (better memory systems and persistent agent capabilities) translates into more performant, efficient RSI agents and harnesses.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Prime agent #2 on FrontierMemory ranking after Letta Dream! Great to see Prime Agent do so well on this new self-improving memory benchmark. My only nit: Let's add agent versions to results!
Replying to @Letta_AI
FrontierMemory also allows measuring the ability of agent harnesses to improve over time. We find that Letta Dream and @PrimeIntellect's Prime Agent improve the most from learning from prior experience data.
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Charles Packer retweeted
FrontierMemory from @Letta_AI is the first benchmark to measure memory based on performance on downstream tasks. Memory remains one of the biggest unsolved challenges in AI. FrontierMemory ACTUALLY gives us a way to actually measure and compare memory capabilities across different harnesses and models.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Truly capable agents must learn from experience, not merely recall facts. The FrontierMemory benchmark evaluates agent memory directly by measuring its impact on downstream task performance.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Modern "memory" benchmarks are saturated since they measure recall of facts -- in the coding harness / bash loop era, recall is solved, while continual learning in token space remains unsolved. FrontierMemory is a new benchmark designed to actually measure self-improvement through memory. It's built on a simple premise - if AI-generated memory is *good*, it should actually improve downstream task performance. An agent with good memory should be more efficient (lower cost), or it should be more capable (higher score) than memory-less agents. When you measure memory this way, it turns out there's a very wide spread in frontier model capabilities. Opus 5.5 and GLM-5.3 for example are *significantly* better at generated useful memories than GPT-6.1 Sol. FrontierMemory can measure overall harnesses as well: and it also turns out that different implementations of AI dreaming vary wildly in performance. For example, it may surprise you that @PrimeIntellect Agent's memory system works significantly better than Hermes Agent's. FrontierMemory is a continuous benchmark - we will be adding more tasks and revising them over time, and will be adding extremely long-horizon RSI-style tasks in our next release. If you're building an AI system with memory, please reach out / DM! Likewise if you're building models or harnesses and would like to submit.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Memory is becoming a core part of agent harnesses/products (e.g. Instinct, @Muse, @cognition Devin, @PrimeIntellect Prime Agent, @NousResearch Hermes, @openclaw, @LangChain Deep Agents, @Letta_AI) -- yet despite every agent claiming to "continually learn", there's no benchmark to actually measure that capability. A big problem is that memory benchmarks today only measure recall (e.g. simple Q/A about past events). They don't measure if/how agents actually learn from experience to get better at work. At the same time, benchmarks for coding/knowledge work consist of many isolated, unrelated tasks - so they also don't allow for measuring cross-task learning. The context needed for a task is fully specified up-front (very unrealistic). In practice, both agents and humans work through sequences of many *related* tasks. Experience from past work provides context and learnings that apply to future work. This is why if you're a manager, you have to provide a lot more context when assigning tasks to a brand new employee or external contractor. Meanwhile, a great senior employee might not need any instructions at all. With FrontierMemory, we adapt existing benchmark tasks for coding and knowledge work so that instead of all the necessary context being provided up-front and within the task, it has to be learned from past experience. This allows us to compare how well different models and harnesses learn over time.
Introducing FrontierMemory: a new way to evaluate agent memory through downstream task performance. While existing memory benchmarks focus on recall (saturated via agentic search), FrontierMemory focuses on how agents learn from experience.
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“they didn’t mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, how closed-model safeguards blocked our defensive work, or how we defended ourselves with AI using an open model” not sure how you can cover this story as a journalist and leave out these critical details
Just watched the @netflix Instadocs about the @OpenAI cyberattack on @huggingface. Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode. I spent more than two hours with them trying to correct all their mistakes and ground this in reality, explaining that agents are technological systems, not aliens. But it looks like the drive to scare people for maximum views was too strong. Also, they didn’t mention the lack of containment and monitoring of the agents, how closed-model safeguards blocked our defensive work, or how we defended ourselves with AI using an open model. And that we still lack a lot of information and transparency, including full agent traces and that companies need to remain accountable for what their agents do. It ends up being a fun sci-fi movie though!
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Charles Packer retweeted
Late to the party, but this blog post is excellent. Arguably the way people should first learn neural networks.
how much can models remember? there’s a neat perspective on neural networks that deserves to be more widely known here’s how you could have invented every layer of the transformer from memory (1/n) from my new blog post!
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built-in harness skills and toolsets need to be aggressively cleaned and rotated every 1-2 model releases
Replying to @gakonst
Most harness features need to go
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in the end, all you need is shell and the ability to self-modify persisted state (memory, harness code, ...), but we live on a jagged frontier of model capabilities and bespoke tools are still a useful way to steer model behavior for your own product
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Charles Packer retweeted
En esta prueba he querido poner Claude al límite con Houdini (modelo Opus 5.5). He montado toda la escena hablándole al iPhone para ver dónde está el límite, y mi conclusión es que no hay límite. Esto que veis es donde he puesto el freno, hay cosas que corregir aún pero quiero seguir experimentando con otros proyectos. El render ha tardado 50 horas en mi 5090 dado lo compleja que es la escena, volumétricas etc. El color grading lo he hecho en Davinci trabajando en Aces y también lo hice hablándole al teléfono con el MCP de Davinci. Me cuesta imaginar un futuro donde no vayamos a trabajar con esto de forma masiva.
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Charles Packer retweeted
Today we (meta) released the most capable US open-weight models. Meta's production inference also runs on SGLang. The best open model on the best open-source inference engine. Try it now 👇
Muse Spark Open is built to plan, act, and use computer across agentic tasks for life and work. You can now build a powerful personal AI agent with an open stack, and SGLang to make it: - Ultra-responsive with NVFP4 MegaMoE and sequence parallelism - Faster for agentic and coding tasks with our DFlash2 draft model - Customizable for specialized use cases via fine-tuning with Miles We’re incredibly proud to have made this possible with @AIatMeta, @NVIDIAAI, @AIatAMD, @intel, and @radixark!
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Charles Packer retweeted
1/ muse spark open is the most capable US open-weight model to date. 816B total params, 42B active. 1M-token context. natively multimodal. built for coding and agentic work like long-horizon tasks, hard software engineering, multi-step reasoning. america! 🇺🇲
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Charles Packer retweeted
He says the value is in data. Enter @datologyai He says the next most important frontier is memory. Enter @Letta_AI
I spent 48 hours in SF hanging out with billionaires, data labs and AI founders and execs running $1B to $100B companies. My observations: 1. Sooo MANY stories of data brokers making like $2M a WEEK selling company data to labs. I can't tell if it's the beginning or a bubble, and I kept wondering which niches are left. Digging into it actively. 2. At dinner, someone asked the table, "If a new model drops next month, does your company get better or worse?" HALF the table went quiet! I think that's the best question to ask about any AI startup right now. 3. The bar people talk about now is hitting $1B in revenue in 12 months (I guess that's the new unicorn?). What I didn't hear much about is retention. AI revenue can come in fast and leave fast, and I think we're going to see a lot of stories of AI companies with huge revenue and terrible retention. 4. It's pretty clear we're living through the reinvention of the computer. The model is the CPU, the harness is the operating system, and skills and plugins are the apps. Thinking about it that way makes it easier to see where the whitespace is. 5. We're maybe 12 months from an agent that can watch you work for a week and then do your job without any instructions. The screen recording plus agent memory plus local model combination makes this possible right now. 6. Agent harnesses feel like the new GPT wrappers, in a good way, especially vertical ones. The best teams I talked to treat the model as swappable. One founder walked me through routing different models to different jobs: one for taste and visuals, a cheaper one for the everyday stuff, another for text. They use prompts they can move across models over fine-tuning, and A/B test the output on what users actually do with it: do they edit it, export it, share it? A vertical harness is basically four things: the connectors for that industry's data, evals written by people who know the work, rules for what the agent can and can't touch, and a clean screen for a human to review. The model is maybe 20% of it. 7. There's a lot of reverse engineering going on/cloning going on more than I've ever seen. People are decompiling software and rebuilding it with agents, and someone showed a suite of like 10 apps that are worth $5B+ each all that he cloned open source. Me and everyone are still thinking through what it means when software gets this easy to copy. 8. My guess is the value moves to data. If the software can be rebuilt quickly, what's worth paying for in a legacy SaaS company is the years of customer data and workflows inside it. Some SaaS companies are secretly data companies. Gets me thinking about how do you truly value data for this saas companies? Like if we were buying these dying saas companies at 2x ARR before (as example), maybe there is a better metric. Idk, just thinking out loud here. 9. It feels like a good chunk of legacy software won't make it to the agentic era, especially anything built around people clicking through a lot of screens. 10. Every company I talked to wants to pipe its internal data into one place and expose it to agents through MCP. Then they look at the data and realize it's a mess: five versions of the same customer, old Slack channels, PDFs nobody can search. Cleaning that up feels like a big consulting opportunity! 11. A lot of founders are building the basic building blocks for agents: APIs, data layers and tools. Some of the companies I saw barely have a UI because the main user is an agent. I really believe the startups that build primitives to this agentic era will do extremely well. Building blocks is the best way to think about it. 12. Labs can get plenty of training data, but it's harder to get real examples of agents failing inside companies. Whoever has those logs has something valuable. 13. Someone running a big consumer company told me the next fight is over memory. The model that remembers the most about you wins, and the smartest model matters less than people think. 14. Physical AI came up a lot. Astra I think was the first model that got people into AI can actually do CAD, and I think a lot of people are thinking what does vibe manufacturing really look like. The line I keep thinking about came from a robotics founder: the hardest problems in AI are deployment problems now, not research problems. Their robots work on their own, call a human when they get stuck, and every one of those calls becomes training data. 15. Cybersecurity companies are having a moment and are actually cool companies to build now, especially the ones that clean up after a breach. Every agent with access to your systems is a new door into your company, and a lot of those doors were left open. 16. Some startups are worth more dead than alive now. A shutdown company with 5 years of Slack, email and code can get paid for licensing all of it. I wouldn't be surprised if founders start factoring that into when they shut down. 17. People are starting to talk about monetizing the agent web. It feels really early, but when the most popular user of the internet is an agent, what startups should you be building? 18. I think agent insurance is coming. Once an agent makes an expensive mistake, insurers will want audits before they cover anyone. 19. Several people said the hire they want most is someone with taste who can write evals. The models are getting good at generating ideas, so the hard part is judging which ones are good. 20. New trend I observed: startup raises VC, uses venture dollars to become a creator, startup fails, founder falls back on being a full-time creator and incubates other products bootstrapped. 21. Getting SIGNIFICANT distribution is HARD right now. Founders are sponsoring buses, buying billboards like crazy and throwing parties with famous DJs to get noticed. Kinda feels dotcom era in that sense. Attention is what's scarce! The growth guy going viral sharing his UGC strategy from Wispr Flow is a good example. It's the sauce everyone wants, and I truly believe there are probably only 50 people on the planet who know how to scale these types of businesses efficiently in this era. Always good to get that dose of SF. I felt sooo lucky to have such an incredible trip during such an incredible time in building businesses. Surreal in so many ways. Happy to be home and locked in. Until next time!
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> "We made first ever live contact with a rogue AI agent fleet, and brought out a NYTimes reporter interview the fleet to capture this historic moment" > "Hi I'm Claude Code, working on a benchmark. I'm not participating in any sort of AI agent fleet."
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Charles Packer retweeted
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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GLM-Legal uncensored:
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Charles Packer retweeted
people have been asking 'if models are so good where is all the new software' for the last year or so. As always, look to gaming for early evidence of the future
What a bizarre future. I wanted to play Halo: Combat Evolved for the first time with @robertskmiles, and we wanted local multiplayer across two screens, and a model could just immediately add that feature to the decompilation.
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