After 10 years at Volvo Cars, I left to co-found MidBrain.
AI doesn’t fail because it lacks intelligence.
It fails because it doesn’t remember.
Over the past year, we’ve explored this across very different environments:
-AI agents in Minecraft
-Long-running AI companions
-Human behavior simulation in robotics
Different domains. Same failure mode.
AI agents process information -
but they don’t improve from experience.
Today, most AI systems are:
Stateless across sessions
Dependent on large context windows
Repeating the same mistakes
Retrained in expensive batch cycles
They retrieve the past.
But they don’t learn from it.
What’s often called “memory” today is:
store → retrieve → inject → re-run
This improves context.
It does not change behavior.
At MidBrain, we’re building the missing layer:
Memory + continual learning for long-running AI systems
Our thesis:
Intelligence is not just inference.
It is the ability to change through experience.
Today, we’re sharing our first step:
SmartSearch - memory retrieval for long-horizon agents
93.5% on LoCoMo (SOTA)
88.4% on LongMemEval-S (SOTA)
LLM-free retrieval (CPU-only)
~8.5× fewer tokens
Paper: https://t.co/63THNXAFcS
This work shows:
why retrieval alone doesn’t lead to learning
why memory must consolidate into procedural behavior
why today’s training paradigm is fundamentally inefficient
(2–5× wasted compute, repeated data movement, batch retraining loops)
This is the starting point.
From:
retrieval → memory → learning → behavior
Toward:
AI agents that run for years, not minutes
One identity across chat, code, and physical environments
We’re opening early design partnerships
for teams building long-running agents (copilots, coding agents, companions)
https://t.co/qzj2gX7WPh