Microsoft builds Memora, a memory system for AI agents

Microsoft Research published a paper at ICML 2026 introducing Memora, a new memory framework built to give AI agents persistent, scalable memory across long-horizon tasks. The system addresses one of the inability of AI agents to retain meaningful context between sessions. Developed by Microsoft’s research team and now publicly available on GitHub, Memora outperforms every major existing memory approach on standard benchmarks while consuming up to 98 percent fewer token than loading full conver