ChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searches
OpenAi is another upgrade of the “memory” of chatgpt.
In one changelog And support pages On the OpenAI website on Thursday, the company quietly announced ‘memory with search’, a function with which chatgpt can draw from memories – details from earlier conversations, such as your favorite food – to inform questions when the bone searches on the internet.
Chatgpt-release comments were updated yesterday with O3 and O4-Mini added to Chatgpt on April 16, 2025, but it is also interesting that they also mention ‘memory with search’ (someone who is already rolling this out? Not yet for me) pic.twitter.com/ovbcjnqf6z
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The update comes shortly after OpenAI has strengthened the long -term memory tool from Chatgpt with the possibility to refer to the entire chat history of a user. It is apparently part of the continuous effort of OpenAi to distinguish chatgpt from rival chatbots such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, the latter also offers a memory function.
As OpenAi explains in his documentation, when memory with a search is enabled and user types in a prompt that requires a web search signs, ChatGpt will rewrite those instructions in a search query that can also use “relevant information from memories” to “make the question better and more useful”. For a user who knows Chatgpt from the memory, for example, is vegan and lives in San Francisco, Chatgpt can rewrite the fast ‘What are some restaurants in my neighborhood’ as ‘good vegan restaurants, San Francisco’.
Memory with search can be switched off by switching out memory in the Chatgpt settings menu. It is not clear which users still have – some accounts on X Report them began to see memory search earlier this week.
