Research & Insights

Updates and news from the Functor team.

January 1, 2026Research

Understanding Memory: A Comprehensive Review of RAG, Agentic RAG, and Memory Systems

From stateless retrieval to stateful cognition: an in-depth exploration of how memory systems for AI agents have evolved from naive RAG to sophisticated cognitive architectures.

December 20, 2024Engineering

Architecting State: A Deep Dive into Functor's Memory Primitives

Moving beyond context window hacking to engineered memory layers with the Functor SDK. Explore 5 active memory patterns including Graph Traversal and Ingestion Governance.

December 18, 2024Research

Beyond Flat Memory: How Functor's DRIP Architecture Outperforms Leading Memory Systems

Detailed benchmark results comparing Functor's multi-module memory system against Mem0, Zep, and others. Discover how hierarchical memory enables superior temporal reasoning and multi-hop synthesis.