Highlights
- OpenAI launches “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a recap of user activity and interests
- Feature is available in select countries across web and mobile
- Review reflects a turbulent but high-growth year for OpenAI
A year-end look at how users talk to ChatGPT
Year-end recaps have become a fixture across digital platforms, and OpenAI is the latest to join in. The company has launched Your Year with ChatGPT, a personalized review of how users interacted with the chatbot in 2025, modeled after the format popularized by Spotify Wrapped.
The feature is now live in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and is available to all users on web and mobile. It analyzes prompts and conversations to highlight recurring themes, interests, and areas of curiosity, presented in a soft, pastel-style layout.
Archetypes, awards, and usage themes
Your Year with ChatGPT assigns users broad “archetypes” based on how they used the tool, grouping them alongside other users with similar patterns. It also hands out lighthearted awards tied to usage habits and ranks users within those categories.
In one example, a user was labeled a “Navigator,” an archetype that OpenAI says represents 22.9% of its user base. The designation reflected frequent experimentation with how ChatGPT works, including comparisons with rival chatbots such as Claude and Gemini, and repeated stress-testing of AI systems.
The recap also generates an AI-created image meant to visually represent a user’s interests over the year.
Who can access the feature
To receive a year-end review, users must have both “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” enabled, and must meet a minimum usage threshold. The feature is not available to Team, Enterprise, or Education accounts.
Following a familiar tech playbook
OpenAI’s recap follows a path well established by other tech platforms. Spotify Wrapped remains the most visible example, often dominating social media feeds each December. YouTube offers its own annual Recap, while Google, Apple Music, PlayStation, Steam, and Google Photos have similar rewind features highlighting user activity.
The format has proven effective at encouraging sharing, with some creators even posting parody versions of their own year-end stats.
A snapshot of OpenAI’s bigger year
The release arrives at the end of a complicated but consequential year for OpenAI. The company rolled out GPT-5, which drew mixed reactions from users, alongside an open-weight local model called GPT-OSS. It also signed major infrastructure deals with Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD.
Those moves helped push OpenAI’s valuation to about $830 billion and marked its transition from a public-benefit-style structure to a privately held company, a shift that lays the groundwork for a potential IPO.
At the same time, competition has intensified. Google has stepped up its AI push with Gemini 3, while investors have begun scrutinizing OpenAI’s spending as concerns grow around a broader AI bubble.
