ChatGPT’s Now Better At Remembering Things About You

Summary: ChatGPT now has an improved memory feature. It can remember all of your chats when it needs to look up something about you. This means that it will know much more about you.

Last year, OpenAI released a feature that would make any AI skeptic a bit worried. It’s a memory feature that will allow ChatGPT to remember certain things about you. It would pick up little things about you, including your likes, dislikes, preferences, and other facts. This makes ChatGPT much more intuitive and personalized.

Other chatbots like Gemini have picked up similar features, and it marks a step closer to our agentic AI world. While it sounds pretty creepy at first, this could be a huge help for people who typically use AI in their daily lives.

ChatGPT has an improved memory: it remembers everything

Apparently, this is the feature that kept OpenAI CEO Sam Altman from sleeping, as per his X.com post. “a few times a year i wake up early and can’t fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature ive been so excited about for so long.” While most people thought that the company was going to release GPT 5, that’s not going to happen for another couple of months.

Rather, the company announced that ChatGPT has improved memory. Now, aside from being able to reference tidbits of information about you, ChatGPT can reference all of your previous chats. It will extract information about you from your older chats to gain a better understanding of you.

If this doesn’t sound like a feature that you want to use, you can opt out of it. You can just go to your settings and disable it. It’s a little annoying that the company enables it automatically rather than giving people to opt-in up front.

The improved memory is rolling out today to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro users. However, it’s not coming out for users in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein. We don’t know if it will come out in these regions down the road.