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Our Visual Memory Layer, Now on Ring Cameras

Memories.ai builds the visual memory layer for physical intelligence. Our app for the Ring Appstore is where you can see it work on the camera at your front door.

Memories

October 13, 2026

Most cameras record. Almost none understand what they recorded.

The answer is not more storage or faster scrubbing. It is a layer that understands video as it's recorded and holds onto what matters. That is the visual memory layer Memories.ai builds for physical intelligence.

Today you can see that layer at work on a home Ring camera. Our visual memory AI app is now available in the Ring Appstore.

The engine underneath

The app is powered by Memories.ai’s Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM), which continuously processes video streams to encode, index, and analyse visual information. The infrastructure ultimately builds a persistent, structured understanding of what’s happening over time.

The same underlying model powers enterprise-grade video intelligence solutions developed with partners including Qualcomm, Lenovo, NVIDIA, and others, enabling machines to reason over long-duration visual data rather than treating each frame as an isolated event.

Now, Ring app users can experience this visual memory infrastructure in action.

What retrieval looks like at home

Chat. Ask a question about your footage in plain English and get an answer built from the clips themselves. "What happened in the last 24 hours?" returns a timeline, with every line linked back to its source clip. Follow-up questions keep the context of the conversation.
Historical Search. Search your camera history by describing what you're looking for the way you'd say it out loud, and see why each result matched: by caption, frame, or summary.

Around those two sit contextual understanding, persistent memory, and alerting for genuinely unusual events. The camera learns what normal looks like at that location, then keeps what it sees searchable across extended periods.

"We've spent years building AI systems that can understand video at unprecedented scale and context," said Shawn Shen, Co-founder and CEO of Memories.ai. "This app brings persistent visual memory to Ring camera owners through the Ring Appstore, enabling cameras to not just record events, but to understand, remember, and now answer questions about what they observe."

"Traditional home cameras are helpful to owners, but there's a lot of untapped potential — time is still spent reviewing footage, with often no way of knowing when or where key information lives within that footage," Shen added. "Our app gives Ring cameras persistent visual memory, enabling them to understand context and provide meaningful insights rather than endless footage to review. With Chat and Historical Search, you can simply ask your camera what happened and get an answer built from the clips themselves."

Why a home camera

A home camera and a factory floor have the same problem. Both run all day. Almost nothing happens, and then one thing does. When it does, someone has to find that moment inside hours of footage. Today that means watching.

Memories.ai builds the layer that removes that step. Footage is understood as it is recorded and kept as memory, so you ask for the moment instead of searching for it. On a porch, the question is whether the package arrived. In a kitchen, it is whether every step was followed. In a warehouse or on a construction site, it is what happened overnight.

While Memories.ai powers enterprise applications across security, retail, and manufacturing with the same underlying technology, the Ring app puts that visual intelligence behind a simple interface: ask a question in plain English, and the system retrieves and reasons over the relevant visual memory.

Understanding, not surveillance

Privacy and security are central to the design. The platform maintains GDPR compliance, includes no facial recognition capabilities, and ensures customers own their data. All visual processing follows enterprise security standards with independent annual audits.