Supermemory Gains Momentum in Cognitive AI

0:01Supermemory has just raised 3 million dollars in our incredibly interesting use case that I am personally super excited about, but I want to break down a little bit about their backstory, how this got started, because I think this is kind of the, I don't know, it's kind of like the golden Silicon Valley story of how a startup comes to be. And yeah, anyways, I love it. So let's get into it. Before we do, I wanted to mention, if you want to try the top 40 different AI models for only$20 a month, I'd love for you to check out my own startup, which is AIbox.ai. We have a playground with 38 different text models, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, DeepSeek.

0:39We just added perplexity this week. So you're able to search the internet and get a model that searches the internet as well. And we have six different image models. We have 11 labs for text-to-speech. We have speech-to-text. A whole bunch of interesting stuff in there for$20 a month. And we just launched a new feature that allows you to build AI tools by just describing them, and our AI will do it. So if you want to check all of that out for 20 bucks a month, it is AIbox.ai. I'll leave a link in the description. All right, let's get into what's going on with SuperMemory. So this is an interesting company.

1:12In fact, this is one that personally I believe we might actually start using over at AIbox because essentially what it does is it's like memory on ChatGPT where it takes everything you've ever said to ChatGPT and it stores it. And so when you talk to ChatGPT, it remembers that, oh, a month ago, you talked about going to this place or that this was your favorite coffee shop or that, you know, this is the specific project you're working on and it will bring up information that you tell it. So it's, you know, you know, ChatGPT is incredibly useful for this. Now, what happens is there's thousands of companies out there with chatbots and different AI tools that don't have memory installed because it's kind of a bit of a complex topic.

1:52And so super memory is essentially an API that does that for companies. And the cool thing is that they do it across different apps. So in the case of AI Box, for example, where I let people use 40 different apps, instead of just, you know, having all of your conversations siloed by conversations between Claude or ChatGPT or Google Gemini, integrating something like Super Memory would all of a sudden make it so if you're on AI Box and you are talking to any of the models, it has memory from anything you've talked about. So it's kind of amazing because it makes it so that instead of, you know, just getting all your memory stuck in ChatGPT, which that was kind of the moat, I think, when ChatGPT came out with their memory feature.

2:32They're like, oh, this is a good moat. No one's going to want to switch to Claude or Gemini if they have all of this memory, all of this, you know, good data built inside of ChatGPT. They don't want to give up these great chats. So as soon as you have a tool like SuperMemory, all of a sudden there's no reason to stick with ChatGPT. gpt that moat goes away and tools like ai box where you could get that memory tied into you know dozens or 40 different ai models makes a lot of sense uh to get access to all the top models uh in one place so i think this is really cool they they say that they get their setup works in five minutes um so overall i think this is a really really interesting tool their website's hilarious it's got these exploding emojis all over the place it looks great um and they did just raised$3 million.

3:16So let's break that down. Their founder is 19 years old. So very young. His name is Darva Shah. Um, and it's interesting. He's originally from Mumbai and this wasn't a company that he just like set off built and was like, this is going to be my thing. He actually started building this. Uh, well, he formerly sold a company that he had. Um, he had a bot cause he's, he's done a lot of consumer facing bots, um, in the last few years. And he sold one of those. It basically formatted tweets into nice-looking screenshots for social media. He sold it to Hypefury. And because of that, he earned enough money that he decided he was going to move to the U.S.

3:54Originally, he was studying to go to the Indian Institute of Technology. He moved to the U.S. and he started attending ASU, very close to where AI Box is headquartered. So after he moved, he decided that he wanted to do a challenge. I've actually heard this from a bunch of other ASU students that I've talked to. So maybe this is a trend over there or maybe this is kind of happening everywhere. But every week for 40 weeks, he was going to build something new. And one of those weeks he built super memory. So initially he called it any context. He put it up on GitHub. And back then it basically just let you chat with your Twitter bookmarks.

4:30So it would look at all the context, anything inside your bookmark. You could chat with your bookmarks and like, hey, what are the top bookmarks I have about marketing, whatever, right? So you're chatting with it. but what he didn't realize was this is actually an incredible tool and use case for a much bigger problem than just chatting with your twitter bookmarks for these ai models and it's kind of interesting how he actually came uh he came to this conclusion he did an internship at cloud flare last year um and he worked on ai infrastructure there um and then he was also their developer relations lead and so while he was there he had some advisors um as specifically the CTO of Cloudflare, which was Dane Knet, who talked to him about all those projects when he heard about SuperMemory.

5:12He's like, oh my gosh, please turn this into a real product because that's actually super useful. And so then this year he decided to work on it full time. And what's really impressive to me about this is that this is an API. It's not just like he built SuperMemory for his platform that lets you chat. It's an API. And so any apps can plug this in, which is really interesting. It basically builds a knowledge graph based on the data that you give it, and then it personalizes the context for the users. So it can support querying across months old entries for a writing or journaling app or searching for an email app.

5:51And then as the solution allows for multimodal inputs, it also can allow, for example, so like it's not just for text, it could do like, you know, it could help a video editor to fetch a relevant asset from a library. It can do documents, chat, projects, emails, PDFs. So it's really cool, right? It's got all of these different, all of this different data that you can stick in there and it will remember them across the whole platform. So beyond just remembering what, what chats you have and, you know, the types of things you've talked about, it can go and like scan through your, you know, your, your links, your Google drive, your OneDrive, your Notion.

6:24There's also a Chrome extension that lets you add notes from a website. So this is really cool. And basically you build these knowledge bases one way or another, and this thing can plug into them when you're talking to AI models. It knows a lot about you. So I think this is really cool. This is what he said specifically about this. He said, our core strength is to extract insights of any kind of unstructured data and give the app more context about users. As we work across multimodal data, our solution is suitable for all kinds of AI apps ranging from email clients to video editors. I think that's really cool.

6:57So they raised$2.6 million. That was led by Sousa Ventures and Broder Capital. And there's a bunch of different investors. Cloudflare's CTO, who is kind of his mentor, got in. Google AI chief Jeff Dean. DeepMind product manager Logan Kilpatrick, a friend of the podcast, also invested in this. And so, yeah, overall, I think this is a really, really cool project. Apparently Y Combinator contacted him, but it didn't work with timing because he already had funding for the project. Now, one thing that I will say about this is Joshua Bowder, who's one of the lead investors on this, well, his Bowder capital was, he said that he was impressed because he connected, oh, and by the way, Joshua Bowder, you might remember him.

7:42His startup is called Do Not Pay. It's like the quote unquote robot lawyer. It went very viral shortly after Chat IJPT came out. It was interesting how he actually found Dravya. He said, I connected with him on X and what struck me was how quickly he moves and builds things. And that prompted me to invest in him. I think this is one of the number one things that investors are looking for is how fast can you iterate on an idea beyond just having an idea? How fast can you actually get it into the hands of consumers? It makes a huge difference. And so this is something that I guess really set him apart.

8:13What's interesting is his customers. He has, um, Cluey is one of his customers, uh, the AI video editor, mantra, um, uh, S C I R a Sierra, a AI search is one of his tools and the real estate startup Retz. So a bunch of different companies are using him. Um, and I think this is a fantastic tool with a ton of uses, but what I will say is this isn't the only company. There are a bunch of other competitors in the memory space um there is leta there's memo um which actually i think sha worked there for a small amount of time um they're both building memory layer agents and susa ventures has actually invested in memories.ai also samsung invested in them and that can tap into thousands of hours of footage to get insights so that one's more in specifically like the video industry um that that they're working on but there's a whole bunch of these different tools in different verticals.

9:12And so when he was asked about this, he said more and more AI companies will need a memory layer. Super memory solutions provide high performance while allowing you to surface relevant context quickly. So basically he says what sets them apart is their low latency. There's going to be other competitors. I mean, I think that makes a lot of sense. I love this. I love that it's not just focusing on video. He's focusing on like the chat bots and the chat bot related tools. Personally, something that I'm interested in with AI box. So I definitely am looking into this right now. And yeah, really exciting and a huge congratulations to the whole team over at Super Memory.

9:45And I think this is a big win for solo founders out there. Yeah. So thank you so much for tuning into the podcast today. If this was an interesting show and a cool highlight of this company, I would really appreciate it if you could leave a rating and review on the show. It helps me out a ton to find more amazing people like yourself. Basically, it gets the show into the algorithm on Spotify and on Apple, if I get ratings and reviews on it. So on Spotify, it's on the about tab on Apple, you can leave me a comment, really appreciate them. And I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day and make sure to go check out AI box.ai.