OpenAI has just rolled out a brand new feature called memory. And I think that this is going to be, number one, a way for them to actually make more money. Number two, this is the moat that I think is going to keep them competitive and really keep everyone coming back to OpenAI when they're kind of starting to lose market share to other players. And finally, I want to break down exactly what Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has been sharing about this.
A lot of really interesting use cases that I personally can see. I'll show you a demo of exactly what that looks like if you're watching live. But otherwise, let's get into what Sam Altman said. So in a recent post over on X, he said, we have greatly improved memory in chat.
You can now reference all of your past conversations. This is a surprisingly great feature. IMO and it points it something. We're excited about AI systems that get to know you over your life and become extremely useful and personalized.
Okay, I think the personalization element is probably like one of the most important. I want to get to that. He then said, rolls out today for pro users and soon for plus users, except users in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Lichtenstein. Shout out to everyone over in Lichtenstein that does not get access to this.
I mean, it's cool to get a shout out. He said, call me, Lichtenstein, let's work this out. He said, you can, of course, opt out of this or memory altogether. And you can use temporary chat if you want to have a conversation that won't use or affect memory.
Okay, what is this? Because a lot of people are probably like, well, didn't they roll out like some sort of memory feature in the past? So in the past, chatGPT had a feature that she could opt in and opt out of, which essentially said, if you said something really important, you could add like a note to, you could add a note to chatGPT and be like, hey, remember this for the future. And it would have a little pop-up that would say like, hey, we're, you know, we grabbed this piece of information, we're remembering it.
And in the, kind of in the back end of your account and your settings, you could go look and see like all the things that remember, kind of had this giant list of things that sort of remember about you that were important. Usually things that you told it to remember about you. Now they're changing that. So obviously that was something that I think would save a lot of money, right?
They don't have to remember a few things, kind of have this like little memory bank of stuff and probably as a way for them to test out this full rollout. The full rollout is where it remembers literally everything you have ever said to it in all of your chat history. A couple reasons why I think this is important. Number one, we know that in like one big chat on chatGPT, it's supposed to, it's sort of remembering everything, but you'll probably notice that if you get like 30 messages into something with chatGPT, it starts to forget the top things.
And that's because the context window that essentially it's grabbing and sending to the AI model when it wants a response back, it's like, look, it's like way too big for us to like send the entire last 30 questions and responses just to get context for like the question. Like you probably get the context out of the last like 10 messages. So they sort of have this cutoff point and they definitely have a cutoff point with their API. So like all developers are using this and adding into things, but they are going away with that.
And now they're just creating a probably right model, a giant repository of data on every conversation you have ever had with chatGPT and everything you've ever said. And all of that can be taken into consideration when you send a message. Now typically this is going to be, you know, the things that are like relevant will be queried against it. I'm assuming they have some like AI models to optimize and make this.
So it's not like you're literally sending every single chat message you've ever sent every single time. They're just trying to find the relevant pieces of it. But it's remembering and it's drawing from everything. This is so fascinating.
I want to show you a use case and then we're going to dive into some more of the details going on here that I think are interesting. Okay, I just went to chatGPT. And by the way, if you ever want to know like where this is, it's over in your settings on your chatGPT account. There's a place called personalization and there is a toggle called memory where you can just toggle on reference saved memories.
They say let chatGPT save memories when responding. You can toggle this on and toggle it off. It's super easy. Okay, so I have it toggled on and I've had it toggled on.
And by the way, this is going to come toggled on by default for everyone that has previously had chatGPT toggled on, kind of like their earlier version of memory. Now everyone that had that on is now going to get the full version. Okay, so I said, what is a good business idea that we've talked about in the past? I'm like, I don't know what I've talked to chatGP about in the past.
Okay, the funny thing is I share my, I have like a work chatGP account and I share it with all the employees. I probably share it with my mom and my sister. I'm like, if you want to use chatGP for free, this is kind of like, this is my company account that like a million people are using and you just use it for free. I just want to have premium pretty much.
So it has all sorts of funny things on here that I don't remember ever asking about like women's health advocacy platforms. That probably wasn't a business idea I was asking about, but I'm assuming some other people did. One thing that was interesting is it's like you should do Christian music and wellness retreats. And it is true.
My wife did just release a Christian music album a few days ago. So I've been asking questions about how to mix and master music and do different things and come up with different concepts. And so, yeah, I've been asking all sorts of questions about this. And now it's decided I need to have a faith-based workshop for self-care and storytelling.
Honestly, the ideas I don't think are fantastic. But what's interesting is it says, tapping into your wife's music and your shared values, you should do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It is true, right? So that is very interesting.
This is just pulling it from some conversation I've had in the past. Now, if you've done this like two days ago or yesterday even, you would not have gotten from like a brand new chat, you know, what ideas we had in the past. You wouldn't have had to be able to pull up everything else. But now it's actually able to pull up chats that I had in the past.
So to me, this is very, very interesting. And, yeah, it's just a simple ChatGP prompt where I ask a question and then it's pulling up conversations that I've had in the past. So this is really, really interesting. I wanted to just release a whole article about this.
They said a couple of different things that were interesting. So apparently ChatGPT free users are not getting this right now. ChatGPT OpenAI said, quote, we are focused on the rollout to paid tiers for now. So if you don't have a premium account, and honestly, this is kind of how everything with ChatGPT OpenAI goes when they release a new feature.
Even when they're like two weeks later, the free tier gets it. If you want it on the ChatGP, you've got to be a paid user for it, which is $20 a month. And I have it for a bunch of different features anyways. What's interesting is they essentially are not copying Google.
A lot of people might say that. But Google did just roll out a very similar feature to this in Google Gemini. And so this came out in February this year, so a couple months ago. And a lot of people, I think, don't use Google Gemini for a variety of reasons.
I don't want to go and drag them too much. But recently I tried other new model, which is like above and beyond on all the benchmarks. It's like the best thing ever. When I tried it, it had some very obvious like hallucination fumbles in the first couple questions.
I was like, ah, it's just not going to become a daily driver. Yeah, and I think Google has a lot of money, resources, and talent. And it will be amazing soon. Maybe it's there today.
I don't know. It wasn't there two weeks ago when I tried it. But in any case, they rolled out this feature. And it's kind of cool to see Google being the first one to roll out a big feature.
And immediately after, we're having OpenAI kind of come and copy it a couple months later. So it feels very much like meta whenever, you know, Snapchat made the stories. And then instantly, meta goes and copies the stories and clones them to Instagram. It's like these models are all kind of competing in the same space right now.
And so they're just kind of, if someone comes with a good idea, everyone's going to try to jump on it. You have DeepSeq that came out with really showing you what the reasoning model was and what the thoughts were in chat. You kind of had a reasoning model, but they weren't showing you the thought process on it. And immediately copy-cloned it.
Now you kind of read the thought process. Or especially like Grok does that now, too, where they show you the thought process in detail. So these models are going back and forth with things. The reason why I think this one in particular is interesting is because this is the moat.
This is literally the perfect thing that ChatGP can do. We have a whole bunch of new AI companies coming from the forefront that are stealing market share. I'm going to be 100% honest. If you've ever used Grok.com, Grok is one that they just released a bunch of new usage metrics on the state of AI.
And Grok has swooped up a whole bunch of market share. It's ex-AI, Elon's AI company. And they kind of branded themselves as like, we'll give you answers to everything. And to be honest, I actually, it was my daily driver for Chat.
I'm using ChatGP a little bit more now that they came up with the image model. And I'm like, oh man, this is super cool. But for most of the text responses, I've been using Grok because it doesn't really seem to, I don't know how to say it nicely. But it doesn't sound like, hey, you can't ask that question.
Or we can't respond to that. Or it doesn't really baby as much if you have a question. I'm just like, hey, I need to figure out this thing for my taxes on my accountant and ask this question. What's the best way that I can do X, Y, and Z?
Help me find ways to save money on taxes or whatever. Obviously legal stuff, guys. But if I ask those kind of questions to ChatGP, it's like, hey, I don't know, I'm like, whatever. It's like really strict and it's not a financial advisor or whatever.
Grok will just kind of like give you all sorts of ideas. So that is why I like Grok. That is an illustrative example that I've used a handful of times. But that's actually kind of everything.
So anyways, I've been using it more and the responses are pretty much the same quality. And so, and actually the metrics showed that Grok was seeing a ton of market share. Now, with this new feature that ChatGP is using with the memory, I think that they'll be able to take back a ton of new users or a ton of users that may have migrated to other places. And the reason for that being, everyone was using ChatGP for the last two years.
Before these other models came out, a lot of people like Claude, a lot of people like Grok, maybe even Gemini is going to come to the forefront now that they're beating them on a bunch of benchmarks. And so all the people that were really hardcore on ChatGP because it's the first and the longest migrated away in the last, let's say, six months. And if they go back, they have like a year and a half worth of data that's there. So I think that this is actually a good thing that they can use to pull back.
And in no way is ChatGP diminishing. We saw that after the most recent reports after the image came out, it said there was 500 million weekly active users, I believe, or 400 million weekly active users. Absolutely insane numbers. So ChatGP is still growing like mad, like crazy.
But I think this is going to be a way for them to double down and stop the leakage out to other AI companies. So overall, this is very, very impressive. Some people have, you know, decided that they don't like this because they're worried it's going to be an infringement on their privacy. They don't want, you know, TechCrunch is saying that, you know, quote, not every user will be thrilled with the notion of opening AI, vacuuming up more of their information.
Of course, fortunately, there's an opt-out. Whatever. Okay. Yeah, if you're concerned about your data, I mean, you technically are giving it to them either way.
It's on their servers, but like they're not going to be used. Like they could use your data either way, I think, especially if you're a free tier. Then the kind of agreement is like, if you're free tier and you're asking questions, I can take that and like use it to help train your models. So that's already how they're operating.
And just because you now know and you can access your previous stuff, that actually doesn't really change anything. So I don't really think that's a good argument. Of course, if you don't like the AI models, have your data, you get a paid plan or an enterprise plan and it won't be training off of your inputs if you do that, that they've said. So that's kind of the way.
And of course, you can opt out of this, but I don't think opting in or opting out really changes much about how they use your data because you give them either way. But in any case, major update from ChatGPT. I'll definitely keep you up to date on everything going down. I think this is huge, right?
You can imagine if you say something like, I am allergic, like Ali Miller said on LinkedIn, you say you're allergic to lavender and then you ask it for recommendations for a flower bouquet arrangement. It's not going to tell you lavender. It's going to say get out. It doesn't want you to die.
And so I think that these are very good use cases. There's tons of good use cases. It can remind you of things that you may have forgotten about that you were talking about it to months ago. Maybe you're like, hey, I was working on this project and I can't remember what the answer was.
Like, what's the best thing? I can go back and find the chats. Remember what you've talked about the project and what the verdict was and let you know. And you can also build on everything you've done in the past.
Access to all of that. So absolutely amazing. Really cool stuff going on. I'll definitely keep you up to date on everything happening in OpenAI and in having on chat.
Thanks so much for tuning in. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day and I will catch you next time.