OpenAI Shares Major Expansion to ChatGPT’s Customization and Memory Capabilities

Tech giant OpenAI just shared a major expansion to its customization and memory feature for ChatGPT.

For many users, this means now being able to recall data from past conversations and also adjusting replies depending on that data. So in essence, the tool will be learning and recalling more about the user with time so it can produce more personalized replies. So it’s just going to be above and beyond the usual key data.


A while back, OpenAI shared another feature dubbed Memory that enables a restricted amount of data to be retained and utilized for future replies. Users needed to ask the tool to recall anything that triggered them. On some occasions, it did try and guess what it should and shouldn’t be remembering. When it did recall something, it generated an alert that memory was updated.

Users were able to both enable and disable the service as per their liking. Moreover, sometimes it would get switched off for certain chats where users could select a Temporary Chat selection that’s kind of like the tool’s incognito variant. The latest changes shared today will go beyond this.

Today, there is a single tickbox on the tool’s interface to enable or disable features linked to memory tracking. There is the older reference saved memories, and there is a new reference chat history. The latter helps the app make use of past conversations as context and take on future replies accordingly.

Different from the older saved memories offering, the new data saved through chat history memory cannot be changed and cannot be accessed. You can either switch it on or off. The latest approach is limited to the tool’s Plus and Pro tiers. We’ll be seeing it get deployed over the next several weeks. There are some nations and parts of the world that aren’t a part of this rollout.

OpenAI shared how these latest features will soon be available to the Team, Edu, and Enterprise at some later date. The firm failed to detail more plans to make it free of cost to users. After getting access to it, you will see a new alert that claims ‘introducing new and improving memory’.

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