AntiMalwareJuly 23, 2026🇷🇺Translated from Russian

VK Tech Adds Multi-Level Memory to AI Agents in VK AI Space Platform

VK Tech has enhanced its VK AI Space platform by adding multi-level memory capabilities to GenAI agents. The update allows agents to preserve context across interactions, reuse previously prepared materials, and take into account past corrections made by employees.

The company expects the new memory system to cut the proportion of repeatedly solved tasks by 40–50 percent. Memory is organized into four distinct layers that operate together to give agents longer-term awareness while maintaining strict access controls.

Four Memory Layers

  • Session memory stores the current dialogue flow and active tasks.
  • User memory records an employee’s profile and individual preferences.
  • Project memory collects materials, decisions, and rules specific to a given project.
  • Agent memory captures the agent’s own working experience, including approaches that produced results and subsequent human adjustments.

With these layers in place, an agent evolves from a short-term digital assistant into a consistent team participant. For example, when preparing a tender response, the agent can draw on the corporate knowledge base, incorporate previous employee edits, and retain both the original data and the revised versions for future use.

The same mechanism applies to incident investigations, project reporting, and product launches. Agents can locate similar past cases, recall the decisions taken, and factor in the reasoning that led to those decisions.

Access to information remains tightly controlled. An agent receives only the data that the collaborating employee is permitted to see. All stored information resides inside the company’s own infrastructure and is never transmitted to external services. Employees can review the contents of any memory layer and delete unnecessary entries at any time.

VK Tech states that the approach will help organizations convert the experience of individual specialists into a durable corporate asset that persists beyond any single conversation and transfers across successive tasks.

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