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Does AI actually need long-term memory, or is context window scaling enough?

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I’ve been following the recent developments in LLMs, specifically the debate between Long-Term Memory (RAG/vector databases) and Massive Context Windows (like 1M+ tokens). It got me thinking: do models actually need a human-like memory system, or are we just overcomplicating things? The Argument fo…

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  1. 2026-08-28 02:15 · r/AI_Agents
    Does AI actually need long-term memory, or is context window scaling enough?

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