Catalog Systems Platform-provider memory OpenAI ChatGPT Memory

OpenAI ChatGPT Memory

https://openai.com/index/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt/

First-party ChatGPT memory combining saved memories, reference to past chats, custom instructions and connected apps; 'improved memory' keeps an evolving summary (legacy list-style saved memories still selectable), with review/correct/delete controls and temporary chats.

Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 71 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
User-scoped persistent facts vendor fix
Tier
T1
Section
Platform-provider memory
Created
2024-02-13 (limited rollout); GA broader rollout mid-2024 third-party fix
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS fix
License
not applicable — not OSS fix
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
Pricing
Free + paid vendor fix
Funding
$122B round at $852B valuation (closed 2026-04; Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank) third-party fix
Freshness
2026-10-22 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
commercial vendor fix
Deployment locus
cloud vendor fix
Platform vs product
product vendor fix
Protocols
mcp-client vendor fix
Compliance
gdpr, soc2-type2 vendor fix

Memory taxonomy

storage
kv
retrieval
injection
persistence
long-term
update
extraction
unit
fact
governance
user-controllable
conflict
llm-arbitrate

When to use

Optimised for: auto-extracted persistent facts about the user

Anti-fit: not for enterprise / programmatic memory; not for compliance-regulated data without ChatGPT Enterprise

Pros & cons

Pros

Largest installed base of memory-using AI users by orders of magnitude; cross-conversation context reads chat history automatically since Sept 2025.

Cons

Memory is opaque — no inspect/edit primitive beyond the settings UI; cross-thread leakage has been a recurring privacy concern.

Claims & capabilities

First-party memory in ChatGPT; auto-extracts persistent facts about the user across sessions; 2024-02-13 limited rollout; mid-2024 GA; April 2025 expansion to chat-history referencing; 100M+ MAU largest installed base; 26 HN + 4 press mindshare

Technical surface

API surface
not applicable — consumer feature, no public API
Backend storage
custom (OpenAI-managed)
Deployment
Managed-only
Embedding model
not applicable — consumer feature
Multi-tenancy
hard-isolation (per-account)
MCP
native (first-party) — ChatGPT apps support MCP connectors
A2A
not supported
OpenTelemetry
no — consumer product

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Similar systems

Other platform-provider memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.

  • AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory T2

    AWS managed memory service for agents running on Bedrock AgentCore. Native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands. Drives long-running MCP servers + agent workloads.

  • Vertex AI Memory Bank (now Agent Platform Memory Bank) T2

    Google Cloud managed memory service, now 'Agent Platform Memory Bank' in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. LLM-based memory extraction/consolidation from sessions (background, multimodal, custom topics), per-identity isolation, similarity search, TTL, revisions; used from ADK via VertexAiMemoryBankService.

  • Anthropic Claude Memory T1

    Memory tool API + consumer "Memory" feature + Auto Dream consolidation. Document-as-memory rather than extracted-fact-as-memory.

  • Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory T3

    Public-beta memory stores for Claude Managed Agents: workspace-scoped collections of text documents mounted into the session sandbox as a directory the agent reads and writes with its file tools; every change is versioned for audit and point-in-time restore, and memories can also be managed via API/Console.

  • Cloudflare Agent Memory T2

    Managed persistent memory service for AI agents on Cloudflare's edge. Private beta announced 2026-04-17. Sits alongside Workers AI / Vectorize as the memory tier of the Cloudflare agent stack.

  • Google Gemini Memory T1

    Gemini app learns from past chats via the Personal context setting (on by default, can be disabled; temporary chats excluded). Users can import memories and full chat history from ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants (18+, personal accounts, not EEA/CH/UK).

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What changed

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  1. 2026-10-22
    • Funding / ownership “OpenAI total $57B+ raised; $300B+ valuation (2025)” → “$122B round at $852B valuation (closed 2026-04; Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)” source
    #219

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