TechCrunch Startup News Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory; plus, Mirai developing a framework for models to perform better on devices
Feb 19, 2026
A startup unveils a platform that gives AI agents shared project memory and acts like a system architect inside developer tools. Another company raised funding to speed up on-device AI, offering a Rust inference engine and SDK that boost generation without changing model weights. The show discusses funding, competition, and plans to expand support for vision and mobile platforms.
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Founders Realized Agents Were Teammates
- Newton Asari and Karan Das observed AI agents doing tasks they'd normally do themselves, prompting a new company idea.
- They launched Reload to manage AI employees with structure around onboarding, coordination, and oversight.
Shared System Memory Prevents Context Loss
- Reload acts as a system of record for AI employees, giving visibility, coordination, and oversight across teams and agents.
- Epic preserves shared context and requirements so multiple coding agents build against the same project-level understanding.
Embed A Context Keeper In Dev Tools
- Install Epic inside developers' existing coding environments so it runs alongside other agents and preserves decisions and artifacts.
- Maintain structured memory of requirements, models, APIs, diagrams, and tasks so context follows regardless of agent swaps.