Spotlight memory architecture grows LLM capacity with linear cost, beats attention on long context
marcbhargava · x · 2026-10-03
apjacob03 introduces Spotlight, a memory architecture with growing capacity and linear computational complexity, aimed at letting LLMs grow their own capabilities. By building Python directly into an LLM, the team shows the architecture can host evolving software ecosystems. Early language modeling results suggest it outperforms attention and linear attention on long-context capabilities.
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