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Zep blog
Company blog · getzep.comaidataprogramming
Zep blog is the company blog at getzep.com, writing about ai, data and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Zep: The Foundational Memory Layer for AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this as the homepage of Zep, a self-hostable, model-agnostic memory and retrieval system for AI chat apps that stores, retrieves and summarises chat history and documents. The writing itself is not discussed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Zep unifies business data, documents, and conversations so agents have the context they need to complete tasks correctly.
Most-linked posts?
- Zep: The Foundational Memory Layer for AI3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-08-25
- Personalizing LLM Interactions: Harnessing Generative Feedback Loops2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-08
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-02
What Hacker News says?
Zep AI (YC W24) | Developer Advocate | https://www.getzep.com | Full-time | SF Bay / Remote US-only Apply at: https://jobs.gem.com/zep Zep is building the long-term memory layer for the LLM application stack. With a fast growing open source community and recently launched cloud service, we're seeking a developer relations engineer to accelerate adoption among developers and help shape our roadmap. In this highly vis…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been keeping a rolling list of LLMOps/AI agent observability products funded by YC. What problems does Lucidic solve that the others do not? https://hegel-ai.com https://www.vellum.ai/ https://www.parea.ai http://baserun.ai https://www.traceloop.com https://www.trychatter.ai https://talc.ai https://langfuse.com https://humanloop.com https://uptrain.ai https://athina.ai https://relari.ai https://phospho.ai https…
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on “Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production”Submitted You should look beyond OpenAI for your LLM Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA friend of mine is building Zep ( https://www.getzep.com/ ), which seems to offer a lot of the Assistant + Retrieval functionality in a self-hostable and model-agnostic way. That type of project may the way around lock-in.
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on “New models and developer products announced at OpenAI DevDay”Submitted Zep: The Foundational Memory Layer for AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelatedly, to have a useful chatbot you need to track chat history in a way very similar to augmenting with document retrieval, but you may need to generate embeddings and summaries as you go. A friend of mine is working on an OSS memory system for chat apps that helps store, retrieve, summarize chat history, and documents to now, I believe, on top of LangChain: https://www.getzep.com/
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on “How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview”Submitted A Survey of Embedding Models (and why you should look beyond OpenAI) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionZep https://www.getzep.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are some of the alternatives of Mem0”Submitted Using OpenAI Functions and Langchain to Extract Structured Data from LLM Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using OpenAI Functions and Langchain to Extract Data from LLM Conversations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an LLM App Intent Router with Langchain and Zep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intent Detection Using Zep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personalizing LLM Interactions: Harnessing Generative Feedback Loops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Survey of Embedding Models (and why should look beyond OpenAI) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personalizing LLM Interactions: Harnessing Generative Feedback Loops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Personalizing Large Language Model Applications as a story · 1 points
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