AI Memory (Self-Updating)
Last updated 15 Jun 2026
What AI Memory is
AI Memory lets the assistant remember things about you across conversations — preferences, facts, recurring context — so you don't have to repeat yourself. It's self-updating: memories are formed from your interactions, kept fresh, and decay over time if they stop being relevant, so stale facts fade instead of lingering forever.
How it works
- Memory items capture a fact or preference worth remembering.
- Each item is embedded so it can be retrieved by semantic relevance, not just exact wording.
- Items track their source (where the memory came from) and a relevance/decay signal, so the system can prefer recent, reinforced memories and let unused ones fade.
Memory is user-scoped — your memories are yours and are used to personalize your own sessions.
Retrieval during a conversation
When relevant, the assistant retrieves memory items by semantic similarity to the current conversation and uses them as context. Because retrieval is embedding-based, a memory like "prefers metric units" can surface even when you phrase the request differently.
Decay and freshness
Memories aren't permanent by default. A memory that keeps being relevant is reinforced; one that's never used again decays and eventually stops influencing answers. This keeps the assistant's picture of you current rather than cluttered with one-off details.
Source tracking
Every memory records where it came from. This makes memory auditable — you can understand why the assistant "knows" something rather than it appearing from nowhere.
Privacy
- Memory is personal data and is covered by ToRun's data-subject tooling: you can request export or erasure of your data, and content is hard-deleted on erasure.
- Multilingual matching is language-agnostic, so a memory stored in one language can still match a query phrased in another.
Tips
- State durable preferences explicitly ("always answer in Turkish," "I work in finance") so they're captured cleanly.
- If something changes, just tell the assistant the new fact — reinforcement and decay handle the transition over time.
- Use export/erasure controls if you want to review or clear what's been remembered.
Watch how it works
Projects, your own files and memory: an AI assistant that knows your work
A project groups related chats, files and memory, and every new chat in it follows the project's system prompt. Add PDFs, documents or text files under Knowledge and the assistant searches them in that project's chats. Memory works across all your chats: mention something worth keeping and you don't have to say it again. Everything it remembers is on your memory page, where you can edit it or make it forget for good.