OSS2026-06-05 · source-backed
The agent-memory race is now a three-way benchmarked fight.
Story
MemPalace (~53.6K stars) claims best-benchmarked, against mem0 (~57.8K) and claude-mem (~80.8K) (GitHub). Agent memory went from experimental nicety to a competitive subcategory with published benchmarks. Pair this with the local-first angle: Mnemo offers a Rust + SQLite + petgraph memory layer with no cloud dependency (GitHub). Portable, controllable memory is having a moment.
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