Long-Term Memory for LLMs: How OpenMemory Solves the Goldfish Problem for Good

OpenMemory: Give Any AI a Private, Persistent & Explainable Long-Term Memory “ In one line—OpenMemory is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed “memory engine” that turns LLMs from goldfish into elephants: they never forget user facts, yet can tell you exactly why they recalled something. Core questions this post answers Why do vector DBs and chat-history caches fail at “getting smarter over time”? How does OpenMemory’s Hierarchical Memory Decomposition (HMD) work in plain English? Can you go from git clone to first recall in under 10 minutes? What does production look like for a personal assistant, an enterprise copilot and a LangGraph agent? …