Answered from AI Interview #2 - Context in LLMs with @aloo_explains · Gaurav Sen · 2026-07-26
Tanishq tells Gaurav Sen that context is what goes into the LLM to answer one particular query, a kind of runtime memory, while memory is data stored outside the model. When a query needs it, such as a healthcare bot asked about medicines prescribed at the last visit, the relevant memory is extracted and loaded into the context.
“So memory is the stored thing.” Tanishq · at 5:55 — open in the transcript →
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