ChatGPT 5 was kind of a letdown for a lot of people, so Sam Altman quickly changed the conversation to ChatGPT 6. It will likely be released this year, and it will come with improved memory. Context is one of the most important and least understood parts of effectively using AI. As a simple example, my ChatGPT knows that I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So if I ask it a religious question or something maybe related to an activity that happens on Sunday, it would know to answer with that context in mind. If I were a Jewish person, I wouldn't want the same answer as a Latter-day Saint. I would want a Jewish answer! The important thing here is helping your AI understand your background can dramatically improve the quality of the output you receive. If it understands that I am an entrepreneur and I have successfully started and sold a company, it will speak to me differently as I talk to it about a new idea. ChatGPT 6 aims to improve this feature dramatically so that it truly understands me and my unique life. There are privacy concerns of course, but that can be solved through many solutions that already exist today. The cool thing about this kind of approach, when done right, is that your AI will just keep getting better and better at helping you because it understands you as an individual. That is a huge push for the future of AI--less focus on the huge "AI knows everything" approach and more focus on the "AI knows the right thing for me" approach.

Aug 20, 2025 · 2:58 PM UTC