Openai is upgrading Chatgpt’s “Memory” Again.
In a changelog and support pages On Openai’s Website Thursday, The Company Quistly Announced “Memory with search,” a feature that lets chatgpt Draw on Memories – Details from Past Conversions, Such as your favorite fields – Inform Queries when the bot searches the web.
Chatgpt release notes were updated yesterday with o3 and o4-mini added to chatgpt on April 16, 2025-but interestingly, they also mention “Memory with search” pic.twitter.com/ovbcjnqf6Z
– Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) April 18, 2025
The update comes shortly after Openai beefed up Chatgpt’s long-in-the-tooth memory tool With the ability to reference a user’s entry chat history. It’s seemingly a part of Openai’s ongoing Efort to differentiate chatgpt from rival chatbots like Anthropic’s claude and Google’s GeminiThe latter of which also offers a memory feature.
As Openai Explains in Its Documentation, When Memory With Search is Enabled and a User Types in a Prompt that Requires a Web Search, Chatgpt will rewrite that Prompt into a serach Query that “May Also Leverage Relevant Information from Memories “to” Make the Query Better and More Useful. ” For example, for a user that chatgpt “knows” from memory is vegan and lives in san francisco, chatgpt may rewrite the prompt “What are some restaurants Near Me Thati Restaurants, San Francisco. “
Memory with search can be disabled by disableing memory in the chatgpt settings menu. IT’s not clear users have it annum – some Accounts on X Report they began seeing memory with search earrier this week.