OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s memory, which will now remember all the conversations it has had with the user. This feature is not yet available in Europe.
ChatGPT now remembers everything
In a post published on X this Thursday, April 10, 2025, OpenAI unveiled its latest improvement for ChatGPT, which sees its memory increased tenfold. From now on, the chatbot will have the ability to “refer to all your past conversations to provide more personalized responses,” OpenAI indicates.
Until now, ChatGPT already had a memory of prompts within a single conversation, which allowed the user to continue the exchange. Regarding longer-term memory, ChatGPT also had a form of partial retention: certain elements that came up frequently in the exchanges could be recorded, but it only kept fragments, without a precise or continuous memory of the entire conversation.
Currently, the new feature isn’t available to everyone: only Plus and Pro users outside of Europe can access it. But if the company sticks to its old ways, the improved memory should be rolled out more widely later this year.
Improved Memory in ChatGPT: A Double-Edged Feature
More and more users are using ChatGPT as a daily assistant. For this personal use, memory can prove invaluable, as it will allow the chatbot to record the user’s habits and preferences. For professionals, it will also offer certain advantages: the ability to understand the context in which it is used, the ability to adapt the format and writing style of its responses to the user’s preferences, but also the ability to become more efficient over the course of exchanges, by anticipating certain needs or avoiding unnecessary repetitions.
On the other hand, by constantly adjusting to the user’s habits and preferences, the chatbot could end up conforming excessively to them, at the risk of systematically writing in the same way, favoring certain angles or formulations, and thus reinforcing a form of informational or stylistic bubble. A personalized assistant, therefore, but sometimes a little too predictable.
This detailed knowledge of the exchanges—and therefore, in a way, of the user—can also cause some discomfort and reveal the extent of the data collected by the chatbot. For those who are bothered by this, it will be possible to disable the referencing of past chats at any time in the settings.
