Network Intelligence Research Center (NIRC)

Jan 31, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Engram Lets Large Models Swap GPU Memory for Cheap RAM to ‘Look Up’ Knowledge

The article dissects DeepSeek’s new Engram architecture, which separates computation from memory by using a large, cheap‑RAM‑based lookup table to store factual knowledge, allowing the transformer’s compute layers to focus on reasoning, dramatically reducing GPU memory demand while improving code, math, and long‑context performance.