Capability 04
Memory across conversations.
Exact name Cross-conversation memory
Step 02 · Context that sticksWhat it is.
Details the tool saves about you in one conversation and uses in later ones, without you loading them. Several tools let you see what it has saved and delete it.
What your tool calls it.
- Memory: ChatGPT's store of saved details about you, which it can draw on in later conversations. A project can switch to a memory kept only inside that project.
- memory: Claude keeps separate, categorised notes about you from your conversations and uses them later, in both chat and Cowork. You can edit or delete each one.
- Memory: Gemini learns from a user's past chats and uses that to personalise later answers. Users can ask whether past chats were used, and delete chats so Gemini stops using them.
Also at Gemini: Personal Intelligence
- Copilot Memory: Copilot remembers details about you and your work from Copilot Chat and other signals, and uses them to tailor its answers. You can view, delete or switch off saved memories.
- Brain: A memory system for Computer that builds a picture of your projects, people and files, so later requests can build on earlier work.
- Memory: Perplexity remembers details you share across separate conversations. It is always off in incognito mode.
Also at Perplexity: Comet memory
- Memory across chats: Grok remembers your preferences and past conversations across chats on grok.com.
Also at Grok: Personalize with Memoriesbeta
- Memory (Meta AI): Meta AI saves facts you share and reuses them in later chats, across apps linked in the same Accounts Center. You can view and delete them.
- memories (Muse): Muse keeps memories about you across conversations, which you can customise.
- Knowledge Base: The assistant saves facts about you and your work, both when asked and on its own, as browsable, editable pages. It recalls them in later chats when relevant.
- Memories: Le Chat's earlier memory of long-term facts and preferences across chats. It is migrating into Knowledge Base.
Why it matters.
Memory changes what the tool knows about you without you doing anything. At some vendors it's on unless you turn it off:
- Microsoft: "Saving memories is On by default in Microsoft Copilot".
- Claude: on by default for Free, Pro and Max; off by default for Team and Enterprise.
And it isn't everywhere: Gemini's Memory isn't available on work or school accounts.
Our view: memory is the opposite of a workspace you load on purpose. Both work. It's worth knowing which one you're relying on.
Words that trip people up.
- Memory has a different scope everywhere. Claude's and Perplexity's projects keep a memory of their own. Grok has three: one for chat, one per Bot, and one in Grok Build. More on "memory" →
- Renamed. Mistral's Memories became Knowledge Base. Gemini's "past chats" became Memory.
- Private chats usually leave memory alone. See private or temporary chat.
Next to it.
One step up.
Step 03 · Get connectedLet it see your email, calendar and files.
What this step asks of you.
Each workspace has one named owner who keeps its documents current. There's a rule on what goes in.
Where we teach it, and where we can help.
Should memory be on at your company, and for whom? That's the kind of question an Enable — Checkup settles. It leaves you with a written AI policy and a starting point for deciding what's allowed.
Or learn it yourself: our one-day class starts with What is this allowed to see? Register interest →