Openai is upgrading ChatGpt’s “memory” again.
On Thursday, the company quietly announced “Memory with Search” on Openai’s website Changelog and support page. This is a feature that allows you to draw ChatGpt (details of past conversations, such as favorite foods) to inform your queries when bot searches the web.
Yesterday, the chatgpt release notes were updated yesterday when O3 and o4-mini were added to chatgpt on April 16, 2025, but interestingly, it also mentions “search and memory” (is there anyone who has already been unfolding this?
– Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) April 18, 2025
This update features the ability to browse the entire chat history of a user right after Openai has enhanced ChatGpt’s long memory tool. This is part of Openai’s ongoing efforts to distinguish ChatGpt from rival chatbots such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, the latter also offers memory capabilities.
As Openai explains in the documentation, when memory with search is enabled and the user types into a prompt that requires a web search, ChatGPT rewrites the prompt into a search query that says, “Utilize related information from memory” and “Make queries better and more useful.” For example, if you are a “know” ChatGpt from Memory is vegan and you live in San Francisco, ChatGpt can rewrite “some restaurants near me that I want” as “San Francisco.”
You can disable memory with search by disabling memory in the ChatGPT Settings menu. It is not yet clear which users have it. Some X accounts reported that they began looking at memory in searches earlier this week.