ChatGPT’s memory feature allows it to learn about you and remember your preferences over time. Memory gives ChatGPT useful context for natural interactions that don’t need start from scratch each time. OpenAI has released new details on how ChatGPT’s memory feature is getting smarter and coming to free users for the first time.

ChatGPT memory generation is getting more advanced

First, OpenAI explains how ChatGPT’s “dreaming” feature that helps fill in the blanks around memories automatically is getting an upgrade.

“Today we’re beginning to roll out a more capable and scalable system for synthesizing memory, developed to tackle the staleness, correctness, and scalability challenges that we observe when memory is applied to the hundreds of millions of users and multi-year time horizons in ChatGPT,” the company says.

Here’s how OpenAI says they’re supercharging ChatGPT memory now: