OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know you over your life with new Memory update

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT’s memory feature its biggest upgrade yet, allowing the AI to know you better by referencing all your past conversations.

ChatGPT has a built-in optional feature called “Memory,” which lets it save your conversations in a database.

For example, if you ask ChatGPT to remember that you don’t like bullet points, it will avoid using them in future chats. At the moment, ChatGPT isn’t good at remembering all your conversations, especially if you use ChatGPT a lot.

This changes with the new version of Memory.

In a post on X, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman announced a new version of Memory that can now reference all your past interactions.

“This is a surprisingly great feature imo, and it points at something we are excited about: ai systems that get to know you over your life, and become extremely useful and personalized,” Sam wrote.

“You can of course opt out of this, or memory all together. And you can use temporary chat if you want to have a conversation that won’t use or affect memory.”

For now, ChatGPT Memory integration is rolling out to Pro subscribers only.

It will arrive for Plus subscribers soon, but there’s no word on free release.