ChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searches

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s “reminiscence” once more.

In a changelog and assist pages on OpenAI’s web site Thursday, the corporate quietly introduced “Reminiscence with Search,” a characteristic that lets ChatGPT draw on recollections — particulars from previous conversations, comparable to your favourite meals — to tell queries when the bot searches the online.

ChatGPT launch notes have been up to date yesterday with o3 and o4-mini added to ChatGPT on Apr 16, 2025 – however apparently, additionally they point out “Reminiscence with Search” (anybody seen this rolling out already? Not for me but) pic.twitter.com/oVBcJNqf6z

— Tibor Blaho (@btibor91) April 18, 2025

The replace comes shortly after OpenAI beefed up ChatGPT’s long-in-the-tooth reminiscence software with the power to reference a consumer’s total chat historical past. It’s seemingly part of OpenAI’s ongoing effort to distinguish ChatGPT from rival chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, the latter of which additionally affords a reminiscence characteristic.

As OpenAI explains in its documentation, when Reminiscence with Search is enabled and a consumer varieties in a immediate that requires an internet search, ChatGPT will rewrite that immediate right into a search question that “may additionally leverage related data from recollections” to “make the question higher and extra helpful.” For instance, for a consumer that ChatGPT “is aware of” from reminiscence is vegan and lives in San Francisco, ChatGPT could rewrite the immediate “what are some eating places close to me that I’d like” as “good vegan eating places, San Francisco.”

Reminiscence with Search could be disabled by disabling Reminiscence within the ChatGPT settings menu. It’s not clear which customers have it but — some accounts on X report they started seeing Reminiscence with Search earlier this week.