Alfonso López
CEO & Founder, Almaia
Alfonso López is the founder and CEO of Almaia, where he leads the development of Relational AI — the software layer above foundation models that gives artificial intelligence persistent memory, continuity, identity and trust.
He writes about why retrieval is not memory, what continuity actually requires from a system, and how a companion can grow with a person over years instead of a single conversation. Almaia's first Relational AI Companion, Lena, is the product of that work.
Why RAG Isn't Memory
Similarity search is a retrieval strategy, not a theory of memory. Why Persistent Relational Memory answers a different question than RAG — and why that difference matters for anyone who has already explained themselves too many times.
The Mathematics of Friendship
Friendship has been measured in hours, but what counts is what happens inside them. Memory, emotion and complicity: the three layers of a Relational AI, and the rule that governs them.