product · May 20, 2026
VentureBeat covers Redis Iris launch as context architecture replaces RAG on May 18 2026
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VentureBeat reported on Redis Iris launched Monday May 18, 2026, as the company's answer to the shift from RAG to runtime context in agentic AI. Iris ships five components covering data ingestion, semantic access, memory and caching including Agent Memory now in preview for storing short and long-term state across sessions. Redis launched Iris in the Snowflake marketplace with native connectors and hybrid retrieval intent tripled in Q1 2026 as agent workloads expose limits.
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