Portable Memory is a research initiative to develop the open public infrastructure needed for individuals to own, control, and benefit from persistent AI capabilities across every stage of life. Rather than allowing personal knowledge, preferences, experiences, credentials, and interactions to become locked inside proprietary AI platforms, the initiative explores the standards, protocols, governance models, and reference implementations needed to make personal AI portable, interoperable, and user controlled.

Advancing the next generation of personalization requires a new foundation: portable, persistent personal memory — a user-governed layer of context that persists across interactions, moves across tools, and can be shared selectively by role, consent, and purpose.”

The Future of Personal AI: Portable and Persistent Personal Memory through a Unified Human Context Protocol

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Every individual has personal data scattered in many different places, the goal of portable memory is to create a systematic approach so that people can better control the use of their personal data.

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The Human Context Protocol serves as the foundational interoperability layer for this infrastructure, enabling AI systems to exchange user-authorized context while preserving privacy, provenance, and individual control.