ChatGPT’s New ‘Memory with Search’ Feature

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OpenAI is once again enhancing ChatGPT’s capabilities — this time by integrating its memory function with web search.

According to a recent update published in OpenAI’s changelog and support pages, a new feature called “Memory with Search” allows ChatGPT to personalize web searches by drawing on details from previous conversations. This includes things like your dietary preferences, location, or hobbies, enabling more tailored and relevant results when the chatbot accesses the web.

The rollout follows OpenAI’s recent improvements to It memory, which now has the ability to recall and reference information from across a user’s entire chat history. This is part of a broader push to distinguish ChatGPT from other AI tools on the market, such as Anthropic’s Claude or Google’s Gemini — both of which offer some form of memory functionality.

With Memory with Search enabled, It automatically rewrites a user’s prompt when a web search is needed, incorporating relevant details stored in memory to refine the query. For example, if the chatbot knows a user is vegan and lives in San Francisco, a vague request like “what are some restaurants near me that I’d like” might be transformed into “good vegan restaurants in San Francisco.”

Users can opt out of this feature by turning off Memory entirely via the settings menu in ChatGPT. It’s not yet clear how widely Memory with Search has been rolled out, but reports on X (formerly Twitter) suggest that some users began seeing it earlier this week.

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