Why Your AI is "Forgetful" (And the New Memory Fix) 🧠

We think of AI models as incredibly powerful, but under the hood, they are surprisingly forgetful and inefficient. Currently, models burn massive amounts of energy "sounding out" simple words every single time they see them—like baking a cake from scratch every time you want a slice,.
In this video, we break down Conditional Memory and the Engram module—a new design shift that gives AI a "long-term memory" to make it faster, smarter, and more efficient,.
In this video, we cover:
1. The "Librarian" Inside the AI 📚 We introduce the Engram: a module that acts like a super-fast librarian living inside the model. Instead of recalculating common concepts from scratch, it fetches a "readymade vector"—a finished numerical recipe—instantly.
2. The 5-Step Dance 💃 We explain the blink-of-an-eye process where the model spots a familiar phrase (a trigger) and grabs the pre-made info from its memory bank.
3. The Smart "Gate" 🚧 The model doesn't just blindly paste memory into the conversation. We detail the Gating Mechanism, which analyzes the context to decide if the memory is relevant before fusing it into the chain of thought.
4. The Power of "Sparsity" 💡 This introduces a concept called Sparsity. Instead of lighting up the entire house (the whole model), the AI only turns on the lights in the specific room it needs. This makes the system incredibly efficient.
5. Memory vs. Computation 🤝 We clarify the difference between Mixture of Experts (MoE) and Engrams. While MoE picks experts for complex reasoning (conditional computation), Engram handles quick lookups (conditional memory). Together, they give us the best of both worlds.
The Big Takeaway: The future of AI isn't just about building bigger models; it's about smart design. By balancing memory and computation, we can create AI that is "instantly fast" regardless of how massive its memory bank grows.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Engram

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