Google Gemini Memory
https://blog.google/products/gemini/temporary-chats-privacy-controls/
Personal Context setting + Personal Intelligence packing. Memory import from ChatGPT/Claude (Mar 2026).
At a glance
- Type
- Personal Context + Personal Intelligence
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Platform-provider memory
- Created
- 2024-11-20 (initial rollout to Gemini Advanced subscribers)
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Free + paid
- Funding
- Google/Alphabet public (GOOGL); no separate Gemini funding
Taxonomy
- storage
- kv
- retrieval
- injection
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- extraction
- unit
- fact
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- llm-arbitrate
When to use
Optimised for: Google ecosystem personal context (Gmail, Drive, Calendar)
Anti-fit: not for non-Google ecosystems
Pros & cons
Pros
Tightest integration of any memory product with personal data sources (Gmail, Drive, Calendar) where users have meaningful history.
Cons
Cross-product data sharing is a trust liability; persistence model has been less clearly communicated than ChatGPT's.
Claims & capabilities
Personal Context setting + Personal Intelligence packing; 2024-11-20 rollout to Gemini Advanced subscribers; Memory import from ChatGPT/Claude in March 2026
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — consumer feature
- Backend storage
- custom (Google-managed)
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- not applicable — consumer feature
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- via official adapter — Gemini supports MCP via ADK / extensions
- A2A
- supported — Google originated A2A
- OpenTelemetry
- no — consumer product
Compare Google Gemini Memory with…
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