Grok Can Now Remember Your Past Conversations

The latest trend in AI chatbots is memory. It's not good enough for these models to provide you the same quick and detailed answers as everyone else; rather, each should be personalized to you based on your past conversations. Now, it's Grok's turn to remember.

xAI, the company behind Grok, announced the chatbot's new memory feature in a post on X on Wednesday. The company says Grok now remembers your conversations, so your future queries will receive personalized responses. In the post, Grok uses an example of a user asking the chatbot to "plan me a workout for today." The assumption is Grok pulls from past conversations with the user to develop a custom workout that fits their needs, including their "interest in dynamic, high-energy activities and fitness trends like jump rope and weightlifting."

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Grok is not the first to roll out this type of feature. ChatGPT has had a memory option for over a year now. For most of that time, the feature would simply remember facts about you from your past conversations, but last week, OpenAI updated the feature to allow ChatGPT to access all past chats—effectively turning your conversation history into one big memory bank. It's not exactly clear how Grok's memory feature compares to ChatGPT's at this time: While it seems like Grok can access past conversations, rather than save specific facts, it's not evident whether the bot will crawl all past conversations each time you make a query, like ChatGPT does now. To Google's credit, Gemini also has a memory feature it introduced earlier this year.

This memory feature is also rolling out first in beta to Grok users on the web and mobile apps, but not the Grok function on X. xAI, the company behind Grok, says that X support is on the way.

How to manage Grok's memory

You can access this new memory option from Grok's settings on desktop or the mobile app. Head to Data Controls, then enable or disable the toggle next to "Personalize with Memories."

If you like the idea of Grok accessing past conversations most of the time, but know you'd like some conversations to stay private, you don't need to keep returning to this settings page. Keep the feature on, but tap the ghost icon in the top right corner of a chat to turn on Private Chat. These conversations will self-destruct after you exist, so Grok won't remember them.

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