Open AI’s ChatGPT is one of the mainstream AI chatbots; as everyone knows, you can give it instructions and it will answer your questions. The feature that lets ChatGPT recall specific information you choose to share with it has existed for over a year. Similar to how Gemini stores information, this feature allows you to tell ChatGPT your likes and dislikes, the type of answers you prefer, dietary restrictions, and more. For example, you can tell the AI assistant that you’re vegetarian, and it will remember that. The next time you ask for restaurant recommendations in a specific area, it will only show you vegetarian restaurants.
ChatGPT can now remember your preferences and talk to you like an old friend.
Gemini can both record information you explicitly tell it to remember and recall past chat history. However, what ChatGPT lacks is the latter, but starting today, that changes. This evolution should enable the AI tool to provide you with more context-aware and relevant answers, combining what you want it to know with what it proactively knows.
When OpenAI describes this feature, In the X postIt wrote that new conversations will naturally build on the information it has already learned about you, making interactions feel smoother and more like answers tailored to you. Additionally, they added that users can always maintain control—you can choose not to use ChatGPT memory in certain chats, or disable the feature entirely.
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
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 10, 2025
By default, this feature is enabled, but if you’ve turned off ChatGPT memory, ChatGPT won’t reference past chat history until you manually enable the feature. Additionally, users can choose to adjust and modify the relevant information the AI tool already knows. Entering a temporary conversation will also automatically prevent ChatGPT from referencing existing chats and stop it from remembering temporary conversation content that could affect memory.
Starting today, all ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers worldwide, except those in the European Economic Area (EEA), UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein, will get the ability to reference past chats. OpenAI also mentioned that Team, Enterprise, and Education users will gain access “within a few weeks,” but there’s no word yet on when free users can expect it.
Source: KOCPC Chinese