Biderman: In 18 months, data scale will require weight-based learning
Dan Biderman · The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn’t Enough — Dan Biderman, Engram Co-founder & CEO · Jul 13, 2026 · at 26:55
Dan Biderman, co-founder of Engram, predicts the shift in enterprise AI architectures away from pure RAG toward parametric pre-training-style memory.
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“Other parts of it are bets that in 18 months from now, the scale of the data will require the methods that we know from pre-training work.”
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