Claude AI now remembers chats and interactions for free users

Anthropic is now making the memory feature in its AI chatbot Claude available to free users as well, Engadget reports. The feature allows Claude to remember and refer to previous conversations to provide more relevant and personalized responses.

Claude memory was originally launched for paying users in August 2025 and was later updated with the ability to split and organize saved memories. The feature is optional. Users can pause it and keep saved data for later, or delete memories altogether from Anthropic’s servers.

This rollout to free users comes at the same time that Anthropic has made it easier to migrate chat histories from competing AI services.

Claude is exploding in popularity after Anthropic stood up to the US government and refused to compromise on two key principles: not allowing its AI to be used for “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons.”