Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n OpenAI is slowly rolling out better memory on ChatGPT, making it a default for ChatGPT to reference past conversations. This has raised the fear that the platform is proactively \u201clistening\u201d to users, making them uncomfortable with how much the platform knows.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ChatGPT already logs information from previous interactions through its Memory feature, ensuring preferences are saved and conversations can seamlessly continue from where the user left off.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n This new update allows ChatGPT to \u201cdraw on past conversations to deliver more relevant and useful responses\u201d and go across all modalities in the platform. Improvements in Memory allow future conversations, not just current chat windows, to reference previous chats. It will only be available for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users. ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu will get access to the feature later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting today, memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on your preferences and interests to make it even more helpful for writing, getting advice, learning, and beyond. pic.twitter.com\/s9BrWl94iY<\/a><\/p>\u2014 OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n OpenAI added Memory to ChatGPT in February last year to make talking to ChatGPT more helpful. Memory is a feature for most chat platforms and large language models (LLMs). Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking added Memory, while frameworks like A-Mem improve long-context memory for more complicated tasks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Improvements to memory will let ChatGPT \u201cnaturally build\u201d on earlier chat, and over time, OpenAI said interactions on ChatGPT will be more tailored to the user.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n OpenAI offers two ways to control Memory through settings. The first is Reference Saved Memories, where the user can direct ChatGPT to remember facts like names or preferences. The company said people usually add this information by explicitly telling ChatGPT to remember something. The model will figure out which information will be helpful in future conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second control is Reference Chat History. This setting permits ChatGPT to draw context from previous discussions and \u201cadapt to your tone, goals, interests, or other recurring topics.\u201d However, the context will not be stored or shown in the settings page like saved memories are.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can choose to have both settings on or off, or just turn on reference saved memories,\u201d OpenAI said. \u201cThe settings are flexible, and you can change them anytime, including managing specific saved memories. If you opt out, ChatGPT won\u2019t draw on past conversations. You can also ask what it remembers or switch to Temporary Chat for memory\u2011free sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remembering conversations and taking details for future conversations not only makes it easy to continue a chat, but ideally, for enterprise tasks, having access to preferences and context makes AI models more useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI investor Allie K. Miller said in a post on X that this update makes ChatGPT \u201clistening all the time. It\u2019s cutting across all of your conversations, whether you have explicitly asked it to remember something or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs I mentioned a few weeks ago, memory is the best feature inside these platforms. As models and features get commoditized, it\u2019s going to come down to personalization, collaboration and network effects. Memory is the key. Memory is the moat,\u201d Miller said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me explain the brand-new OpenAI release that kept Sam Altman up all night last night.<\/p> \u2b07\ufe0f\u2b07\ufe0f\u2b07\ufe0f<\/p> I don’t have memory turned on ChatGPT (because I can’t for work), and today is the day that starts to hurt.<\/p> Until today, ChatGPT’s memory was pretty boring. It waited for a clear\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/fdAq1JLlwA<\/p>\u2014 Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n However, after OpenAI announced the Memory update, some users expressed concern that it might change how the model interacts with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prominent AI commenter and Wharton professor Ethan Mollick noted it\u2019s not a feature he will turn on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI totally get why AI long-term memory is useful and, based on my testing, think many people will love it\u2026 but I actually don\u2019t want my LLMs I use for work to chime in with personal details or subtly change its answers as a result of my past interactions. Boundaries are good,\u201d Mollick said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I totally get why AI long term memory is useful and, based on my testing, think many people will love it\u2026 but I actually don\u2019t want my LLMs I use for work to chime in with personal details or subtly change its answers as a result of my past interactions.<\/p> Boundaries are good.<\/p>\u2014 Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy worried ChatGPT \u201cthink worse of me based on that noob bash question I asked 7 months ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will GPT think worse of me based on that noob bash question I asked 7 months ago ?<\/p>\u2014 Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n Memory on ChatGPT will be helpful, but it will be up to the user to determine how much they want the chat platform to know about them and how crucial past information will be for future conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n Daily insights on business use cases with VB Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to impress your boss, VB Daily has you covered. 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