AI Memory Startup Engram Raises $98 Million As It Seeks To Slash Token Costs

AI startup Engram has secured $98 million in funding to address the rising costs of deploying artificial intelligence. The eight-month-old company, backed by investors including General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, aims to solve the problem of expensive AI operations. Engram's technology introduces a "learned memory" layer that remembers organization-specific workflows and institutional knowledge, allowing AI systems to generate responses using far fewer tokens. The company claims its models can match or outperform leading AI systems while using up to 100 times fewer tokens. Engram has already attracted clients such as Microsoft and Notion. The startup's name comes from the neuroscience term "engram," and its founder, Biderman, was inspired by his grandmother's memory loss to pursue computational neuroscience. The funding round reflects investor confidence that the next major opportunity in AI lies in improving efficiency and reducing costs.

(Source：International Business Times)