A 19-year-old nabs backing from Google execs for his AI memory startup, Supermemory

Summary

Context windows of AI models, which indicate the ability of a model to “remember” information, have increased over time. However, researchers have suggested new ways to increase long-term memory of AI models, as they often can’t hold context over several sessions. 19-year-old founder Dhravya Shah is attempting to solve problems in this area by building a memory solution, called Supermemory, for AI apps. Originally from Mumbai in India, Shah started building consumer-facing bots and apps a few years ago. He even sold his bot that formatted tweets into good-looking screenshots to the social media tool Hypefury. The founder, who was preparing for an entrance exam to get into IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), earned good money from this sale and decided to move to the U.S to attend Arizona State University instead. After relocating, he challenged himself to build something new each week for 40 weeks. During one of those weeks, he built Supermemory (which was initially called Any Context) and put it on GitHub. At that time, the tool allowed you to chat with your Twitter bookmarks. The current version of the tool extracts “memories” or insights from unstructured data and helps the applications understand the context better. A memory map extracted by Supermemory Image Credits: Supermemory Shah secured an internship at Cloudflare in 2024, where he worked on AI and infrastructure. He later worked as a developer relations lead at the company. During this time, advisors, including Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, asked him to turn Supermemory into a product. This year, he decided to build Supermemory full-time. Supermemory, now described as a universal memory API for AI apps, builds a knowledge graph based on the data it processes and personalizes the context for the users. For instance, it can support querying across month-old entries for a writing or a journaling app, or searching for an email app. As the solution allows for multimodal inputs, it could also allow a video edito...