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A deep-dive analysis of the independent third-party Agent memory infrastructure industry in H1 2026, comparing core players including Mem0, Clipto, Letta, Zep, Cognee, Hindsight, and Microsoft Memora across technical routes, benchmarks, and commercial endgame scenarios.
While the Agent space appears booming, 80% of developers are actually just writing 'glue code' (L1 orchestration layer). Real technical barriers lie in L2 engineering and L3 model layers, and 2027-2028 will be the critical inflection point for industry consolidation.
The analogy between LLM and steam engine partially holds, but the probabilistic nature creates fundamental differences from the steam engine's determinism. LLM is a powerful cognitive tool whose value depends on how users harness its output.