Vana acquires Memory Protocol team as it launches groundbreaking Personal Server and Memory Upgrades to the Vana App

Every major AI added memory in the first half of 2026. OpenAI's Dreaming. Claude Chat Memory. Gemini Personal Intelligence. Grok Skills. Microsoft's M365 Copilot Memory rollout. Five launches, five more walled gardens.

Each one is a retention feature. Your context lives on their servers, serves their product, and stops at their wall. If you move to a different AI tomorrow, or use two at once, you start from zero.

Until now. Vana was built to give you an exit from walled gardens so that your data belongs to you. Today, the Vana App Upgrade is live in Beta. And the memory layer inside it is now something you own.

What is the Vana App upgrade?

The Vana App upgrade gives you a personal data server, on your device, that you control.

Connect your data sources once. Your Spotify listening history, your Oura sleep and recovery data, your calendar, your conversations across platforms. That data lives locally, not on any platform's servers. It's yours.

From there, you decide what it serves and to whom. Grant a permission, revoke it anytime. No platform intermediary, no asking anyone for access to your own context. Your data becomes self-sovereign.

You can permission your data to any app built on Vana's Data Portability API, or port your memory using MCP.

Portable Memory MCP

Vana has acquired the team behind Memory Protocol to lead these important upgrades. Jack Spallone has joined the Vana team and brought his deep know-how and expertise on portable memory into the Vana stack.

The Vana App upgrade ships an MCP endpoint for your personal server. That means Claude can read from it. ChatGPT can read from it. Any MCP-compliant tool can read from it. Your memory and context are now portable, from one source you own, across every AI or app you use.

This is what we mean by open data infrastructure for human-grounded AI. Portability as a protocol.

For builders

Vana's Data Portability API now makes it possible to ship apps that read from a user's Vana personal server with their permission.

Your users bring their own context to your app. You don't need to build memory infrastructure from scratch. You don't need to ask a third-party platform for access to user data. You can ask the user directly.

Start building, or add personal data portability to your app today. The docs are at docs.vana.org. We will be holding Builder Workshops and Office Hours in Vana's Discord throughout the week, so be sure to tune in.

How to try it

Try the Beta version of the Vana App Upgrade at app.vana.org.

Those who try it out and offer feedback will be given priority slots for the Full Release.

Interested in building on it? Visit docs.vana.org. For workshops and questions, join our Discord.