--- title: Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is... description: Andrej Karpathy, Google, and Garry Tan independently converged on Markdown as the format for AI agent memory and context within a single quarter — but for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-google-and-garry-tan-agree-markdown-is-the-answer-but-they-re-not-solving-the-same-lxq4tg8i0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem | daily.dev og:description: Andrej Karpathy, Google, and Garry Tan independently converged on Markdown as the format for AI agent memory and context within a single quarter — but for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/andrej-karpathy-google-and-garry-tan-agree-markdown-is-the-answer-but-they-re-not-solving-the-same-lxq4tg8i0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LXQ4TG8I0.png og:image:alt: Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Andrej Karpathy, Google, and Garry Tan independently converged on Markdown as the format for AI agent memory and context within a single quarter — but for different purposes. Karpathy proposed linked Markdown files for personal LLM knowledge bases, Google published the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) to package organizational knowledge for BigQuery agents, and Garry Tan's gstack uses 23 Markdown role files to orchestrate coding agents. The common thread: a folder of Markdown files versioned in git is becoming the substrate agents read and write. The competitive implication is that the moat is shifting from owning the best model to owning the richest, most curated Markdown knowledge base — one that is portable across models, clouds, and frameworks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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