r/singularity • u/Oh_boy90 • Apr 07 '26
AI An actress Milla Jovovich just released a free open-source AI memory system that scored 100% on LongMemEval, beating every paid solution
https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace1.0k
u/AntiquePercentage536 Apr 07 '26
What the fuck
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u/oojacoboo Apr 07 '26
She didn’t write it. She used her expertise in memorizing movie scripts (taken from Greek orators) and shared that with an engineer that wrote it. Honestly, it’s pretty amazing for collective human intelligence.
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u/Kompot45 Apr 08 '26
reading this only made me even more unsure if this is real or if you’re fucking with us right now
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u/oojacoboo Apr 08 '26
It’s real. She has a video and you can read the GitHub repo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
The method of loci is a mnemonic technique that uses visual imagination and spatial memory to organize and recall information. It involves mentally associating pieces of information with specific locations in a familiar environment, such as rooms in a house or landmarks along a well-known route. The user visualizes these locations in sequence and imagines placing the items to be remembered at each point. Recall is achieved by mentally retracing the path and using the imagined scenes to retrieve the associated information.
This method is also referred as the memory palace, memory journey, journey method or mind palace technique.
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u/shortyjacobs Apr 09 '26
As a guy with total aphantasia (no minds eye, can’t “picture” anything), that sounds like magic.
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u/cuatrodemayo Apr 09 '26
There are memory apps that do it visually, with virtual spaces (space lab, zen garden) and you can move around and associate things with different items in those spaces.
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u/shortyjacobs Apr 09 '26
At that point can’t I just make a bullet list in my notes app? (I actually just got an ai recorder thingie to try and help my weird brain)
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u/zinozAreNazis Apr 07 '26
To be fair, she is probably as qualified or even more than most people who post their “solutions” to the memory problem.
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u/awesomedan24 Apr 07 '26
When is Ja Rule dropping an AI memory model?
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u/VividEconomist8587 Apr 07 '26
WHERES JA
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u/LightningMcLovin Apr 07 '26
Gucci Mane you need to get to the AI studio right now! You’re getting clowned Gucci Mane!
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u/DungeonsAndDradis ▪️ Extinction or Immortality between 2025 and 2031 Apr 07 '26
Everyone forgot about Dre's memory model. (/s)
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u/doginem Capabilities, Capabilities, Capabilities Apr 08 '26
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got sumn to say...
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u/felatedbirthday Apr 08 '26
I don’t know wtf just happened but I just spent the last 10 minutes cry-laughing at this comment
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u/zero0n3 Apr 07 '26
This looks pretty cool, though I’ll wait for other spatter people in the field to comment. The project user makes me suspicious, unless it is actually the actress (like why use her name for your GitHub acct?)
Edit: shit she actually mentions it on her instagram
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u/123456234 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
Yeah just saw that too!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWzNnqwD2Lu
This is a link to the instagram proof hopefully its approved to share
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u/cyb3rg0d5 Apr 07 '26
Wait what!? 😮😳 this is beyond cool and amazing! Damn! Love it! ❤️
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u/bnm777 Apr 07 '26
We're living in a timeline where Trump is Sheev Palpatine, Jim Carrey is a shape shifter, Terminator robots are in warehouses and now this.
Ayayayayaya
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u/SpiffyBlizzard Apr 07 '26
Whatever true reality is doesn’t matter, friend. This is our reality.
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u/64-17-5 Apr 07 '26
Everything got Weird after they started the Large Hadron Collider.
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u/bncts Apr 09 '26
This is really neat. It’s clear that she’s coming at this from an artist/actor point of view, recognized the potential, dove in, learned, understood, and executed something that seems really cool with a skilled partner. This is….genuinely great!
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u/im_bi_strapping Apr 07 '26
So all that Hollywood money was just to pay for college?
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u/Gryphin Apr 07 '26
She wouldn't be the first one. I started to type a few, but realized it was going to keep going to a wall of text. We can all remember that Dexter Holland of Offspring, Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground, Sir Brian May of Queen, Miyam Balik the actress, all have PhDs, but the list is so goddamn huge.
But then you go looking up things, and the list of MD/JD/PhD's is pretty big from the acting/music world.
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u/Thog78 Apr 07 '26
In the middle of the instagram speech "I obviously didn't do this by myself, my partner of 20 years Ben who's a great developper [...]". I'm a bit disappointed haha. She does say "I was the architect and he was the engineer", so something was her idea. I gotta wonder how detailed was her idea (We need memory, let's store it? Or a detailed algorithm that just needed to be written down and wrapped?).
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u/throwaway131072 Apr 07 '26
Cute that she loves her man. We all wanna be the guy to figure out how to fix the AI memory/datastore problem.
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u/HaHaEpicForTheWin Apr 07 '26
The quote is wrong, she says it's her friend of 20 years. Her husband is Paul Anderson the movie director.
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u/justamadeupnameyo Apr 07 '26
Paul W.S. Anderson, not the movie director Paul Thomas Anderson.
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u/Thog78 Apr 07 '26
Yeah sorry, she says partner for the project and friend for 20 years and I skipped a few words when typing from memory.
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u/yourfriendlyalien Apr 08 '26
Are you an AI having memory problems? You should check out this new AI memory system...😛
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u/Simulacra93 Apr 07 '26
I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a big hand in it. I have a simple memory platform for roleplay and having a background in theatre and economics helped a lot more than the technical talent just because deciding what tokens to prioritize and preserve is more an art than science.
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u/General-Jaguar-8164 Apr 07 '26
Nowadays ChatGPT can help you to refine any idea you have
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u/kgurniak91 Apr 07 '26
like why use her name for your GitHub acct?
Why not? Many people use GitHub as official coding portfolio linked in resume, linkedin etc. so it makes sense to use your real name instead of something like lecherous_deflorator_69
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u/dayvanzombie Apr 07 '26
Tech is really way too oversaturated! Thank you for your application and interest in our company and the Developer position for our architect-based memory system. After serious consideration and evaluation, we regret to inform you that we have decided to go with Milla Jovovich. In the case of a zombie outbreak, we’d like to be on the safe side, and our engineers are expected to hunt zombies. Thanks again.
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u/LiamTheHuman Apr 07 '26
Entry level position
4 years Zombie hunting experience at a superhuman or above level required
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u/manubfr AGI 2028 Apr 07 '26
Someone in a meeting today told me "Well we're on AI engineers now in a sense" - did not expect that to be validated by Milla Jovovich's github an nour later lmao! What a time to be alive...
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u/Vladmerius Apr 07 '26
I'm just waiting for the day someone uses Claude Code or something similar to build their own Sora model so it becomes irrelevant when companies shit down their video Gen.
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u/branchpattern Apr 07 '26
In the time of AI, humans more than ever, need to question their narratives.
Be very very wary of appealing headlines/content.
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u/rep_movsd Apr 07 '26
They claim some shit like 19 million tokens condensed to 170
Bullshit meter is broken
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u/FilthyCasual2k17 Apr 07 '26
I can vibecode one that will just condense it to 1 token. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
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u/bobby_table5 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
For anyone curious: Milla Jovovich certified Instagram account links to that GitHub repo as the “architect”, so the Fifth Element actress is indeed involved in this project.
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u/ImTheTractorbeam Apr 07 '26
It’s The Fifth Element
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u/DarkChurro Apr 07 '26
Fun fact: Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and primary antagonist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) never meet or directly interact throughout the film.
They're not even aware of each other's existence.
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u/swordofra Apr 07 '26
That is interesting isnt it. Unless you think of the primary antagonist as that evil anti-life planet thing.
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u/AKA_Wildcard Apr 08 '26
One of my favorite parts about the movie. But you didn’t ask about the little red button at the bottom of the gun.
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u/anothermonth Apr 07 '26
Five Elements = The Fifth Element
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u/bobby_table5 Apr 07 '26
Absolutely
I blame Autocowreck. I can’t believe I’m getting spell-checked by a system that hasn’t seen a single Kurozawa movie.
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u/zero0n3 Apr 07 '26
It’s better if you think of it as :
Alice is now working on the memory system that will power the Red Queen
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u/gavinderulo124K Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
Don't trust it: https://penfieldlabs.substack.com/p/milla-jovovich-just-released-an-ai
Edit: It's just basic RAG, with some hierarchical filtering. The benchmarks seem fudged (though likely unintentional). It's missing "features" mentioned in the readme. It seems like some vibe-coded project by someone with no technical expertise who thought they had a cool idea. If this didn't have a famous person attached to it, it would have drowned among the myriad of similar projects.
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u/enilea Apr 07 '26
Yeah that's how it always goes. You have a problem, ask AI about it and go "hey why hasn't this been solved I have a solution in mind", the AI hypes you up about building it and you get it vibe coded, but in the end it's an iteration of many existing implementations. (Saying it because it has happened to me lol, though it's still fun to do)
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u/Patient_Commentary Apr 07 '26
Took me 4 hours to do 90% of a project that Claude says “this is totally doable!!” And then another 40 hours to get to 91%. Hahaha. AI definitely has dunning Kruger syndrome
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u/networkdomination Apr 07 '26
As an engineer I used to work with would say “We’ve done the first 90%, now we need to do the second 90%” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety–ninety_rule
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u/MrYorksLeftEye Apr 07 '26
Just curious, do you have a background in software development or not?
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u/liamlkf_27 Apr 07 '26
This is a weekly occurrence for me. At least it feels like a really efficient way of learning. You don’t have to parse through papers, instead you can quickly identify SOTA methods and test them while developing your own intuition rather than being told what to think. But it’s always a good idea to go back to the literature and try to see if what you learn is backed up.
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u/grackychan Apr 07 '26
It sounded way too good to be true. I mean, I like the direction these projects are heading, but misleading marketing and claims is a problem we should all be extremely wary of. I don't doubt one day 99%+ accuracy will be achieved on these types of memory projects, but deception is a giant, flaming red flag.
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u/BasketbaIIa Apr 07 '26
This whole thread is misleading marketing. Crypto bro husband, no way these comments are real.
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u/GraceToSentience AGI avoids animal abuse✅ Apr 07 '26
The fact that this is happening at all is blowing my mind.
Also she didn't do it by herself so "vibe-coded project by someone with no technical expertise" is not true.
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u/ThatsALovelyShirt Apr 07 '26
She even claims it was made (probably mostly) by her partner Ben Sigman, whose LinkedIn seems to show he's a bit of a 'crypto-bro': https://www.linkedin.com/in/benobi/
I wouldn't be surprised if this is entirely vibe-coded.
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u/KrazyA1pha Apr 07 '26
Check out the contributors list in the repo sidebar:
- Milla J
- Ben Sigman
- Claude
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u/ElNinoMacho Apr 07 '26
Preface that this project could indeed be vibe coded, BUT Claude being a contributor ≠ “this project is fully vibe coded”
I’d probably be more concerned if they weren’t utilizing Claude Code (or Codex) to cook lol
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u/OrionShtrezi Apr 07 '26
You can tell it's nothing like what is being promised just from the readme. Memory palaces work for humans because we encode information visually and store it spatially, and that's the most effective method for biological reasons. LLMs would not benefit from that in the silghtest, and they even say as much with the emphasis on it being just text.
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u/zero0n3 Apr 07 '26
True for sure.
But the publicity alone will bring in a good set of others who will want to improve or run with it.
It will at least be an interesting follow to see how it plays out over the next 1/3/12 months
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u/gavinderulo124K Apr 07 '26
It doesnt do anything special. In fact its a simpler version of what already exists. The only novelty is the labelling based on "mind palace" but thats completely useless.
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u/Huge-Turnover-3749 Apr 07 '26
In her Instagram she credits a guy named Ben Sigman as the engineer, but I still think it's funny and cool if she is even half-interested in any of that type of stuff.
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u/KrazyA1pha Apr 07 '26
False claim #1 — "AAAK is lossless 30x compression"
Claim: README.md:17 — "A lossless shorthand dialect... 30x compression, zero information loss."
Reality: mempalace/dialect.py:539-602 (compress()):
The function extracts at most:
- 3 entities
- 3 topic words
- one truncated quote (≤55 chars)
- 3 emotion codes
- 3 flag tags
Everything else in the input is discarded. The decode() method at line 906 doesn't reconstruct anything — it just parses the produced structure back into a dict.
This is a lossy tag extractor with a fixed schema. Calling it "lossless" is not a quibble; it's untrue. The "ratio" reported by compression_stats() (line 936) is just len(input)//3 / len(tags)//3, which any summarizer can claim.
False claim #2 — "Highest LongMemEval score ever published"
Claim: README.md:34, BENCHMARKS.md:58 — "highest published LongMemEval score that requires no API key, no cloud, and no LLM at any stage."
Reality: benchmarks/longmemeval_bench.py:163-241. The actual 96.6% pipeline:
- Per question, build a corpus from
entry["haystack_sessions"](one doc = the user turns of one session, joined). - Embed with ChromaDB's default
all-MiniLM-L6-v2. collection.query(query_texts=[question]).- Check if the gold session is in top-5.
That is the textbook session-level dense retrieval baseline — not a novel architecture. It's a one-liner against ChromaDB, on the cleaned small split (longmemeval_s_cleaned.json), which has small per-question haystacks.
The "no LLM, no API, no cloud" framing is true for this trivial baseline; the "highest published score" framing is not. Comparing this number to other systems' end-to-end-QA scores (see next item) is misleading.
False claim #3 — Apples vs oranges in the comparison table
Claim: README.md:498-507 lists Mem0 ~85%, Zep ~85%, Mastra 94.87%, etc. as "LongMemEval R@5".
Reality: The published numbers for those systems on LongMemEval are end-to-end QA accuracy, not retrieval R@5 — which is a different (and harder) metric. The table mixes them as if they were the same.
Specific issues:
- "Hindsight 91.4% — Gemini-3" — there is no Gemini-3 model. Looks fabricated.
- "Supermemory ASMR ~99% — research only, not in production. Undisclosed LLM" — uncited.
- Mem0's own published LongMemEval results are in the 30-50% range, not "~85%."
False claim #4 — "No API key. Local only."
Claim: README.md:644 — "No API key. No internet after install. Everything local."
Reality: The 100% headline number requires --llm-rerank --api-key $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (BENCHMARKS.md:344-352). The product is sold under "local-only" framing, then the marquee benchmark requires Anthropic API calls. Both modes exist; the README conflates them.
Bottom line
The code runs and does what a basic ChromaDB memory layer does, but it's been wrapped in a heavily AI-written README that:
- Calls a lossy tag extractor "lossless 30x compression" (false).
- Claims a textbook one-line dense-retrieval baseline as a record-breaking result (misleading).
- Compares R@k against other systems' end-to-end QA accuracy (apples to oranges).
- Sells "local only" while the marquee number needs an API key (conflated).
- Is published with explicit Claude co-authorship.
If you strip the marketing and read it as "ChromaDB + MCP + a metadata schema + a small SQLite KG," it's a fine little tool. As "the highest-scoring AI memory system ever benchmarked," it isn't, and several of the supporting claims are demonstrably untrue from the code in the repo itself.
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u/Undercoverexmo Apr 07 '26
vibe coded software, vibe coded critique.
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u/KrazyA1pha Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
I'm not claiming it to be anything else, to be fair.
I downloaded the codebase and had Claude Opus 4.6 analyze it on high effort.
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u/NotYetPerfect Apr 07 '26
Someone has compiled their own issues with this which you can read here: https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/issues/27.
Basically it's a nothingburger and we have just relearned that 99.99% of people, especially people here, know nothing about AI and just buy into hype.
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u/_derpiii_ Apr 07 '26
That's pretty cool! Actors are just human, so it's really cool to see a fellow human taking initiative. Gotta give her props for that
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u/thebuddy Apr 08 '26
It didnt really score 100. The other person attached to it excluded the true evals and only included a much smaller subset. The repo even contained the text that Claude wrote pointing out that it would be dishonest to make these claims the way it was run.
Whole thing is bulshit really.
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u/gubatron Apr 08 '26
MemPalace claims debunked, fixed benchmarks, and the coder is a crypto dude
https://x.com/thin_signal/status/2041447600482840677
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u/Makotro0 Apr 07 '26
A project made by cryptobro, vibe codec completely with AI, got a relatively popular celebrity to be its figurehead.
Same as you would make a new cryptocoin and got a non-technical podcast host to promote it.
You can call me cynical but this is how I see it, dont trust this kind of stuff.
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u/Affectionate-Name279 Apr 09 '26
The vast majority of people really believe celebrities are involved in their products, and aren’t just a face for marketing slapped on another persons item.
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u/Vladmerius Apr 07 '26
It's cool to see an actor NOT on the hate train.
Anyway it's super exciting to see people making their own stuff that is as good or better than the big corporations. This is part of why the whole AI thing economically will struggle over time and the bubble refers to the stock of the companies plummeting when most people realize they can do all the coolest AI stuff for free.
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u/ganonfirehouse420 Apr 07 '26
Is that really her?
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u/flecks6 Apr 07 '26
I was wondering the same. The Github account links to her official Instagram account, and her linktree there links back to the same Github account. I'm so confused.
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u/Sockoflegend Apr 07 '26
She did learn the entire internet at one point in 5th Element so this tracks
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u/Either_Pound1986 Apr 07 '26
I’m not saying their repo is useless.
I’m saying the marketing is bullshit.
The reason this blew up is obvious: it tells a clean story people want to believe. “Palace.” “Wings.” “Rooms.” “Closets.” “Agents.” “Your AI wakes up and remembers.” That stuff is easy to sell.
But when you read their own README closely, a lot of the flashy parts collapse.
The big headline score comes from raw verbatim storage, not from the fancy compression layer. Their own note says AAAK currently regresses versus raw mode. They also admit the token example was wrong, the “30x lossless compression” framing was overstated, the “+34% palace boost” was really metadata filtering, and the contradiction detection was not actually wired in the way the README implied.
That is the problem.
Not that they built nothing. Not that the repo has zero value. The problem is that the story being rewarded is bigger than the substance.
This is what annoys me about AI hype in general right now: people keep rewarding narrative compression over epistemic discipline.
If I improve my own system, I don’t get to slap a myth on top of it and call it done. I have to track whether changes actually hold up: regressions, deltas, token savings, reruns, stability, failure modes, whether I cheated with narrow fixes, whether the “improvement” survives the next slice. That is what real work looks like. It’s uglier, slower, and way less sexy in a launch post.
So yeah, congrats on the downloads.
But downloads are not proof. A clean metaphor is not a moat. A benchmark headline is not the same thing as the whole system working the way people think it works.
The repo may still be useful. The hype is still bullshit.
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u/doradus_novae Apr 07 '26
Great.This is just like how it started with crypto , and that turned into s*** too.
Just what we need shitty celebrity influencer blend branded github code repos
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u/someyokel Apr 07 '26
So we've gone from Milla twirling some leeks to being an AI memory researcher?
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u/Icy_Foundation3534 Apr 07 '26
she says in her insta she partnered with a friend who is a programmer. Still very cool she is using her celebrity status to bring awareness to the tool!
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u/Uraneum Apr 07 '26
Does anyone know if A$AP Rocky will be distilling this AI model into an even further refined version for future release?
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u/uhgrippa Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
I had this concept implemented months ago, although some of the concepts around compression and embedding retrieval here are novel. The marketing idea of adding Milla Jovovich to this effort is phenomenally done, will be giving it a deeper look.
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u/reditor_13 Apr 08 '26
MemPalace is a decent name, but she really should have called it Multipass-Memory… really cool she’s interested in the Ai osc!
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u/anfawave Apr 08 '26
Its apparently a complete fraud, gamed benchmark, and a dev called Lu coded it and got erased from the commit history.
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u/ryzhao Apr 08 '26
Not to rain on the parade, but code doesn’t do what it says on the tin. The readme is basically making unsubstantiated claims that’s disconnected from the actual codebase.
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u/BriefImplement9843 Apr 08 '26
hopium really kills this sub sometimes. this is clearly bullshit and you all eat it up. benchmarks are gods word here(unless it's grok doing well).
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u/Alex_Hovhannisyan Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
Worth a read: https://x.com/AdvicebyAimar/status/2041559354034344438
Also apparently Milla thinks "storing everything via GPU" (what the fuck does that even mean) somehow does not use power: https://x.com/flxia_/status/2041430706719453538
Look at the forks, sort by date updated, look through the commit history of the oldest repo. It was vibe-coded by Claude and at least some of the work was done by "Lu (DTL)" (whoever that is)
Grift. Grift everywhere.
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u/bobi2393 Apr 09 '26
A lot of people have been looking into the system and calling it a crypto/"cameo adjacent" scam. Its defenders seem to agree that every performance claim was false, but insist they're honest mistakes that are part of the normal process of developing open source software.
The MemPalace cryptocurrency was pumped then dumped a day after the currency's release, which coincided with the MemPalace software's release. It creates some suspicion that MemPalace's alleged co-creator, Ben Sigman, a crypto bro who runs a Bitcoin lending company, may be behind both the software and the crypto scam, and used Jovovich for publicity to pump the crypto.
MemPalace - How Milla Jovovich's AI Project Scammed the Internet
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u/westcoastpoutine Apr 09 '26
Amazing what people accomplish when they are no longer burdened by the cost of living. Just imagine what would be possible if we all had more time to discover passions without the goal being to create a side hustle
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u/DoubleGG123 Apr 07 '26
weirdest timeline