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Founder & Engineer, Aether

Nathan Thompson

Nathan is the founder of Aether, the memory layer for AI agents. He works on the retrieval engine, the SDKs, and the infrastructure that keeps agent memory fast, durable, and multi-tenant.

3 posts

Engineering

Why we built our own engine for agent memory

The least fashionable decision we made building Aether: instead of putting a memory layer on top of an existing store, we wrote our own engine in Rust. Here's the reasoning — and what it cost us — behind flat-rate, single-binary agent memory.

7 min read
ComparisonsFeatured

Aether vs Mem0: The Honest Comparison

Looking for a Mem0 alternative? An honest, side-by-side comparison of Aether and Mem0 for agent memory — features, pricing, and where each one wins.

7 min read
Announcements

Introducing the Aether Blog

A home for engineering notes, honest comparisons, and guides on building AI agents that remember — with code you can run today.

2 min read