Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is gradually bringing its chatbot Grok closer to parity with leading competitors such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
On Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that allows the bot to remember details from past conversations with a user. Now, if you ask Grok for recommendations, it will give more personalized answers, provided that you have used it enough for it to “learn” your preferences.
ChatGPT has had a similar memory feature for a long time, which has recently been enhanced so that it can refer to a user’s entire chat history. Gemini also has a persistent memory that allows you to tailor your responses to specific people.
“Memories are transparent,” reads a post from Grok’s official account on X. “You can see exactly what Grok knows and choose what to forget.”
Grok’s new memory feature is available in beta on Grok.com and in the Grok iOS and Android apps, but not for users in the EU and UK. It can be turned off on the Data Controls page in the settings menu, and individual “memories” can be deleted by tapping the icon under the memory in the Grok chat interface on the web (and soon on Android).
xAI says they are working on adding the memory feature to Grok on X.
