MemPalace Hits 49.8K Stars — Milla Jovovich's Local-First AI Memory System Claims 96.6% Recall With Zero API Calls

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MemPalace, co-created by actress Milla Jovovich and developer Ben Sigman, launched April 5 and surged to 49.8K stars in three weeks. Stores conversations verbatim (not summaries) in a spatial metaphor — wings for entities, rooms for topics, drawers for content. 96.6% R@5 on LongMemEval with no LLM calls. v3.3.3 released April 24. 29 MCP tools, ChromaDB backend, auto-save hooks for Claude Code. Free alternative to Mem0 ($19-249/mo) and Zep ($25/mo+).