Vibe Memories

Updated November 2, 2026 — Le Chat is now Vibe. As of May 28, 2026, Le Chat is now Vibe (still at chat.mistral.ai): a single agent for work and code, carrying over your conversations, settings, and subscriptions. The legacy Le Chat experience remains accessible in Chat mode; in Work mode, agents are now skills (invoked with @), memories are the knowledge base, and deep search is the Deep Research skill. Plans are now called Mistral Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise. This lesson uses the name Vibe; some menus described here may have changed names or locations.

An AI That Learns From You

By default, every conversation with an AI starts from scratch. You re-explain your job, constraints, and preferences every session, ending up writing the same context paragraph ten times a week. Vibe’s Memories feature breaks this amnesia: the assistant retains information you share over time and uses it in future responses.

Memories is opt-in. Nothing is stored until you activate it in your account settings, and you retain control over everything retained. This explicit activation isn’t just administrative detail: it makes memory a decision, not a surprise.

What Vibe Remembers, and What It Leaves Out

Once Memories is active, Vibe identifies elements in your conversations that will serve you long-term. It retains your professional profile when you say, “I’m a marketing director at a 50-person SME,” your communication preferences when you specify, “I prefer short, direct answers,” your technical context—“Our tech stack is based on Python and PostgreSQL”—your current projects like launching a B2B SaaS product, and numerical constraints like “Our marketing budget is €5,000 per month.”

Conversely, memory is designed for preferences and context, not sensitive data. Passwords and credentials, credit card numbers, detailed medical data, and anything you explicitly ask not to retain remain out of scope. Know this and act accordingly: the best protection for a secret is not writing it in a conversation.

Staying in Control

The Memories section in your settings displays the complete list of what has been retained, with each item presented as a readable summary. This is your dashboard, and it deserves a visit now and then.

An incorrect memory is deleted individually—typical after a job change, where the old professional profile would otherwise steer every response. Partially accurate information is even simpler to correct in the flow of conversation: “Actually, our team now has 12 people, not 8.” Vibe updates the corresponding memory without you needing to go through settings.

Finally, nothing is irreversible. Memories can be deactivated at any time, and you can clear all memories in one gesture to start fresh.

The Gain, Measured in a Real Case

Take an HR manager at a 200-person company. Without memory, each conversation must start like this: “I’m an HR manager at a 200-person company. We use SAP SuccessFactors. I’m looking to improve our onboarding process. Our sector is agri-food. Our training budget is €15,000 per year.” Five sentences before even asking the question.

After a few conversations with Memories active, the same request fits in five words: “How to improve our onboarding?” The job, company size, HR tool, sector, and budget are already known, and the response accounts for them without any reminder. The gain isn’t just typing time: it’s eliminating the risk of forgetting a constraint when it counts.

Getting the Most Out of Memory

Don’t wait for Vibe to guess. State your structuring information explicitly in your early exchanges: “Remember that I’m a frontend developer specializing in React,” “Note that I always address a non-technical audience in my presentations,” “My company is based in France and subject to GDPR.” A direct instruction beats ten incidental mentions.

Then review your memory list regularly to eliminate the obsolete, correct imprecisions, and enrich your preferences. A memory is only useful when current; outdated, it becomes a source of errors all the more insidious because it’s invisible in the conversation.

Finally, consider compartmentalization. Memories apply to all your conversations, with no separation between professional and personal use. If you alternate between very different contexts, you can ask Vibe to ignore certain memories for a given exchange.

To Do Right Now

Activate Memories in your settings, then open a new conversation and provide three key pieces of information about your professional activity. Close it, open another, and ask a question related to that activity without recalling any context: you’ll see immediately if the personalization took. Finish by opening the Memories section in settings to compare what you said and what was actually retained—the gap is instructive and will teach you to formulate your information so it’s memorized as you intend.

Key Takeaways

• Memories is an opt-in feature that retains your preferences and context
• You keep total control: view, modify, and delete memories
• Proactively share important information to accelerate personalization
• Check your memories regularly to keep them up to date
• Memories significantly improves response relevance over time