The hidden cost of AI agents is memory

The first generation of enterprise AI projects taught businesses how to retrieve information. A user asks a question, the system finds relevant context, and a model turns it into an answer.

CEO & Co-Founder of SurrealDB.

AI agents change that equation because they retrieve information dynamically and adjust their own state in the process. As tasks evolve they juggle everything from plan development, and outbound tool calls, to updating records, and recording results.

Multiply that activity across hundreds or thousands…