OpenAI launches ‘Your Year with ChatGPT’ personalized 2025 recap

On the surface, Your Year with ChatGPT is a bit of product fun—Spotify Wrapped for AI. Under the hood, it’s a strong signal about how much interaction data OpenAI is sitting on and how it’s thinking about personalization at scale. To produce a recap that feels specific but not creepy, OpenAI has to classify conversations into themes, infer usage patterns, and generate narrative and visuals from that—all based on billions of user‑AI exchanges.

For the AGI race, this kind of feature is less about raw capability and more about data network effects. Every recap is an incentive to keep using ChatGPT, to leave history and memory turned on, and to treat the chatbot as an ongoing companion rather than a disposable tool. That drives more longitudinal data about individuals’ goals, workflows, and quirks—exactly the kind of signal you need to train more agentic, personalized models without hand‑holding.

It also sharpens the privacy debate. The feature is opt‑in and limited to consumer plans, but it reminds people that their entire year of prompts can be sliced and summarized. Expect regulators and privacy advocates to point to products like this as they push for clearer rules on retention, profiling, and the line between analytics and surveillance in AI services.