‘Tis the season for year-end recaps from the online services you frequent. The latest entry: Your Year with ChatGPT, a look back at your interactions with the AI chatbot, in the spirit of Spotify Wrapped.
Available now in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for all users across the web and mobile devices, it looks at your queries to pull together the biggest themes and curiosities in a pastel-colored package. Your Year with ChatGPT also gives awards with certain attributes and ranks them in various archetypes against other ChatGPT users.
OpenAI deemed me a Navigator, based on my use of ChatGPT in 2025.
For example, I got an inventor award and recognition as a “navigator” archetype, which accounts for 22.9% of users. That makes sense, given how much time I spent investigating how ChatGPT functions, both as a thing itself and in comparison with other chatbots like Claude and Gemini. I do some serious stress-testing of these AI tools.
The year-end review also generated an AI image of all my interests.
To get a Your Year with ChatGPT, you have to have “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” turned on. You also needed to use ChatGPT a minimum number of times to trigger the feature. Your Year with ChatGPT isn’t available for Team, Enterprise or Education accounts.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is following in the well-trod footsteps of year-end reviews from other tech companies. Spotify Wrapped is the buzziest, with users eager to sharing their results on social media. It’s prompted some creators to film their own parody wrapped videos showcasing their dismal dating lives. YouTube too latched onto the trend with Recap, showcasing the creators that users watched most throughout the year and where they landed against all viewers. Other end-of-year rewinds include Google Search, Google Photos, Apple Music, PlayStation and Steam.
Your Year with ChatGPT caps a successful, if rocky, year for OpenAI. The company released GPT-5 — which many users weren’t crazy about — and its open weights local model named GPT-OSS. OpenAI also inked major infrastructure deals with Oracle, Nvidia and AMD, shooting its valuation to $830 billion, and it moved from being a nonprofit-esque public benefit company to a privately held company, laying the groundwork for a potential initial public offering.
At the same time, it’s been feeling the heat from Google’s AI efforts, including the launch of Gemini 3. Investors are also becoming wary of OpenAI’s cash burn amid concerns of a larger AI bubble.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ‘s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
