The cognitive architecture layer is the missing piece in the AI companion marke one independent researcher just published the first formal implementation

Most AI investment is going into models and applications. Nobody is investing in the cognitive architecture layer the infrastructure that makes AI companions actually stateful, continuous, and contextually aware. PHI // DRIFT is the first published cognitive architecture that gives an LLM-based companion real internal needs, salience-weighted memory, and a falsifiable behavioral continuity metric. Published yesterday as a research preprint. 10 GitHub stars in 24 hours with zero promotion. Built