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An actress from Resident Evil building an AI tool sounds like a PR stunt. It’s not.

Milla Jovovich and engineer Ben Sigman built MemPalace after months of frustration with AI forgetting everything between sessions. The core philosophy: don’t let the AI decide what’s worth remembering. Store everything, make it searchable.

How It Works

Conversations get organized into a spatial structure inspired by the ancient memory palace technique — wings for people and projects, halls for memory types, rooms for specific ideas. Everything lives locally in ChromaDB, no external API calls. The startup context loads in just 170 tokens.

An AAAK compression layer achieves 30x compression into an AI-readable shorthand that any LLM can parse — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, no special decoder needed.

Why It’s Blowing Up

96.6% on LongMemEval R@5. Mem0 and Zep — both paid products — sit around 85%. The hybrid mode with Haiku reranking reportedly hits a perfect 100%, though an X Community Note flags that this uses targeted fixes for 3 failing questions.

7,000 GitHub stars within 48 hours of launch. MIT licensed. Runs entirely on your machine.

The real story isn’t that a celebrity made an AI tool. It’s that a free, open-source project outperformed two VC-backed memory startups on the benchmark that matters most.

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