Your ChatGPT Wrapped is here 🎁

Also: Waymo tests Gemini as its in-car AI assistant.

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The Neural Frontier
December 26, 2025

Do you smell that? Yeah, that’s premium holiday cheer right there 😆. 

Before we dive into today’s issue, we just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas from the Neural Frontier. And of course, a happy new year! 

In this week’s shorter issue, we’re unpacking ChatGPT’s recap (or wrapped, if you like), as well as a product update from your fav robotaxi. 

Ready or not, here we go! 

In a rush? Here's your quick byte: 

🎁 Your ChatGPT Wrapped is here!

🤖 Waymo tests Gemini as its in-car AI assistant.

🎯 Everything else you missed this week.  

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week.

Source: OpenAI

OpenAI is rolling out “Your Year with ChatGPT,” a personalized annual recap that mirrors the viral appeal of Spotify Wrapped, but for how you’ve used the chatbot over the past year. The feature is now live for eligible users in select markets, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand.

🧠 What “Your Year with ChatGPT” shows you

The experience is designed to be lightweight and playful, not analytical or invasive.

Instead of hard metrics, it highlights how you used ChatGPT — wrapped in colorful visuals and personality-driven summaries. Users receive custom “awards” based on their usage patterns, like being crowned a “Creative Debugger” if they frequently used ChatGPT to work through problems or ideas.

ChatGPT also generates a poem and an image reflecting your most common topics and interests from the year — a creative flourish that leans more into vibe than data science.

🔐 Who gets access (and who doesn’t)

At launch, the feature is available to users on the Free, Plus, and Pro plans — but only if:

  • “Reference saved memories” is enabled

  • “Reference chat history” is turned on

  • You’ve met a minimum conversation activity threshold

Notably, Team, Enterprise, and Education accounts are excluded, reinforcing that this is a consumer-facing feature, not a workplace one.

OpenAI emphasized that the recap is privacy-forward and fully optional. It won’t auto-launch or force itself on users.

📱 How to find it

“Your Year with ChatGPT” will be promoted on the ChatGPT home screen, but you can also trigger it manually by simply asking ChatGPT for it.

The experience is available on:

  • The ChatGPT web app

  • iOS and Android mobile apps

🤖 Waymo tests Gemini as its in-car AI assistant.

Source: Waymo

Waymo may soon give its robotaxis a voice — and it’s a familiar one.

According to findings by researcher Jane Manchun Wong, Waymo is testing an unreleased Gemini-powered in-car assistant designed to accompany riders, answer questions, and manage parts of the cabin experience. 

The feature hasn’t launched publicly, but the discovery of a 1,200+ line internal system prompt suggests this is far more than a casual experiment.

🧠 More than “just a chatbot”

Wong’s findings show that the assistant — internally called the “Waymo Ride Assistant” — is designed as a friendly, helpful AI companion whose job is to enhance the ride without getting in the way.

It can answer questions, offer reassurance, and control select in-cabin features like climate, lighting, and music. Waymo confirmed only that it’s “always tinkering” with new rider experiences, stopping short of confirming whether this feature will ship.

🎭 Carefully scripted personality

The leaked system prompt is unusually detailed about how Gemini should behave. The assistant is instructed to:

  • Use clear, simple language

  • Avoid technical jargon

  • Keep responses short (1–3 sentences)

  • Maintain a calm, reassuring tone

When activated, it can greet riders by first name and even reference contextual details, like how many Waymo trips they’ve taken — a small touch that makes the experience feel more personal.

🚗 A hard line between “the AI” and “the driver”

One of the most interesting design choices is a strict identity separation.

Gemini is explicitly told not to speak as the autonomous driving system. So if a rider asks, “How do you see the road?”, the assistant must say “The Waymo Driver uses…” — never “I use…”.

The prompts also forbid Gemini from:

  • Commenting on real-time driving decisions

  • Explaining or defending Waymo’s driving performance

  • Responding directly to incidents or viral crash videos

If pressed, the assistant is instructed to politely deflect — without sounding defensive or apologetic.

🎛️ What it can (and can’t) control

Gemini’s in-car powers are intentionally limited.

It can adjust:

  • Temperature

  • Lighting

  • Music

But it cannot change routes, adjust seats, roll down windows, or control volume. If asked to do something outside its scope, it responds with soft “aspirational” phrases like, “That’s not something I can do yet.”

It can answer general knowledge questions — weather, store hours, trivia — but it’s blocked from real-world actions like ordering food, making reservations, or handling emergencies.

⚔️ Not alone in the race

Waymo isn’t the only company experimenting with AI companions in vehicles. Tesla is doing something similar with xAI’s Grok, but the philosophies differ.

Gemini is positioned as pragmatic and ride-focused — helpful, quiet, and tightly constrained. Grok, by contrast, is pitched more as a conversational companion with memory and personality. Two visions of in-car AI. Very different vibes.

🎯 Everything else you missed this week.

Source: Groq

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week. 

1. 📚 LearnFlux is an AI-powered learning platform that converts PDFs, videos, audio files, and web content into interactive flashcards, quizzes, and editable notes with real-time AI guidance and progress tracking.

2. ✨ vibecodeprompts is a prompt optimization tool that transforms app ideas into structured, tool-specific prompts for AI coding platforms like Lovable, Replit, and Bolt, reducing credit waste and improving code generation quality.

3. 🎬 CyberCut is an AI video editing platform that converts long videos into viral shorts, generates videos from scripts with AI avatars, and enables text-based editing with automated captions and effects.

Wrapping up… 

What a year it’s been, eh? Product launches, regulatory curveballs, and an AI race that refuses to slow down.

As always, it’s a reminder that we’re living through something genuinely historic. And if there’s one takeaway this season, it’s this: enjoy the moment. Step away, reconnect with your people, and let the AI news rest for a bit — we’ve got it covered.

We’ll be right here, same time, next week. 

Merry Christmas from all of us at the Neural Frontier🎄!