$REDIS · Redis CEO sees AI agents driving massive demand for in-memory context engine

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Redis CEO sees AI agents driving massive demand for in-memory context engine

2026-05-18 · 2 company · 8 thematic

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rowan

CEO of Redis (Reddus), leading open-source in-memory data structure store; pivoting to flash-backed agent context engine for AI.

dean

CEO of Decart, building real-time video world models (Lucy, Oasis) and cross-chip inference optimization stack (DOSS) for AI.

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“Similarly, in the agent era, a similar transition is happening. So as that load increases, you can't have like my company has a thousand employees. I can't have a hundred thousand or a million agents and we're going crazy with agents right…”

—rowan

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