Not every update is a new model. Sometimes it’s the small handles you touch every day. On August 15, OpenAI gave ChatGPT exactly that kind of bundle – nothing that moves the stock price, but plenty that smooths out the daily grind.
Quizzes right in the conversation
The most visible feature: you can now ask ChatGPT to quiz you on a topic – and you answer the questions right there in the chat. Interactive, no detour through a separate tool. Handy for studying, for exam prep, or just to check whether you actually understood a piece of text. It’s available on all consumer plans and the Edu plans, on web and mobile.
Switching memory per project
The second one is quiet but useful. For projects, you can now change how memory works after the fact – flip between the normal, cross-project mode and a project-only mode without having to spin up a new project. Sounds technical, but it’s exactly the dial you miss when a project suddenly drags in context from some completely unrelated corner.
The Think button, now free too
On top of that: the Think button and “Go to web” now land in the Free plan as well. On Android, dictation and the composer behave more smoothly. All polish – but the Think button in the free version is the real win, because now non-paying users also get more compute per message for the tricky questions.
My take
I like updates like this, even though they make no headline. They show where things are heading: the big model jumps are getting rarer, and the fight moves into the details of how you use the thing. Whoever nails quizzes and finer memory handling first won’t win a benchmark – but they’ll win people’s habits.
For us Claude users, it’s a decent gauge. What shows up as an everyday feature in ChatGPT tends to become a talking point here sooner or later – who quizzes whom, and how granular should a memory be? That’s exactly where the next round of competition plays out.
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