We recently released the Memex Beta! Hundreds have started using it. Join them! It's free to try, and we'd love to hear your feedback!

In this installation of As We May Think, we explain our mission and share more details about the beta.

Our mission

The core of humanity’s growth in the past 250 years has been productivity improvements, powered by technology. Science and engineering are the backbone of that progress.

Today there are 35 million engineers in the world. 30 million of them build software1. 5 million of them build physical products2.

The world needs more builders. We need builders to sustain the growth in productivity that uplifts human welfare. We need builders to confront the self-inflicted environmental challenges we face. We need builders to expand our world to interplanetary and interstellar frontiers.

Our mission at Memex is empower anyone to build anything to the benefit of humanity. AI will expand the world’s builders by 100x—the entire global labor force will be able to create both digital and physical products. We call these new builders—previously unable to build—“AI-native builders”. We aim for Memex to be a fixture in their toolset.

If you have an idea for something to build but don’t know how to get started, try Memex!

Memex Beta

The Memex Beta is a humble first step in pursuit of our mission. We are eager to improve it with your feedback. It is not optimized for any particular use cases—yet. Instead, it is a general-purpose problem solver equipped with web access, coding capabilities, and the ability to use tools on your computer. It will make mistakes, but it will iterate to fix them. The key dimension we’ve focused on is a semi-autonomous experience that can safely iterate on your machine to solve problems. The Memex team and its early users have used it for lots of cool use cases, shown below.

• Apps

  • Create and deploy analytics dashboards on Snowflake/Neon/Big Query

  • Create and deploy web apps to Google Cloud, Netlify, Modal, Vercel, Koyeb, and Firebase

  • Create an iOS app with Gemini Flash and Firebase authentication

  • Create apps with scientific computing libraries for orbital mechanics, biotech data analysis, and climate science

• Research

  • Research the figures and create the charts used in this post :)

  • Research angel investment opportunities in deep tech areas like nuclear fusion and space

• Local machine management

  • Clean up unused packages and application caches to free up disk space

  • Manage installations and configurations of complex software, like OpenCASCADE and programmatic connections to Virtual Machines.

• 3D design

  • Design physical objects using the Fusion API and PythonOCC

  • Use a C++ library (Geant4) to analyze radiation impacts on hardware

• AI tools

  • Use o1-preview to do multi-agent reasoning from the API

  • Create a podcast using OpenAI’s TTS API

  • Create a “crew” with crewAI for trading cryptocurrencies

Checkout our YouTube channel and/or follow us on Twitter to see some demos of Memex and stay up to date.

The Memex Beta is free to try, and we’re eager to improve it with feedback. Our growing Discord community is active with users building cool things and surfacing bugs—join us! We can’t wait to see what you build.