A powerful ChatGPT feature could be coming to Gemini

Have you ever wished you could take an existing AI conversation into a completely new directory while keeping the original thread intact? ChatGPT makes things easy with its “hookup” feature, but Claude and Gemini don’t offer any hookup functionality – or at least, not yet.

While there’s still no chat branching in Claude’s standard chat interface, code spotted in the Gemini app hints that Google’s AI chatbot could soon benefit from this functionality.

Android Authority claims to have found “evidence” of “working” chat hookups in a recent version of the Gemini app, while noting that the feature “is not yet available” and “needs some tweaking to be enabled.”

So what’s so special about cat hookup? Simply put, it allows you to “branch” an existing AI chat from any point in the conversation, handy for experimenting with different versions of a given chat without losing the original chat thread.

In ChatGPT, for example, you can branch into the chat by navigating to any response, clicking the three-dot “overflow” button (as shown above), and selecting the “Branch into new chat” option.

When you do, you will generate a new chat that starts at the specific branch point, allowing you to continue the conversation with new prompts while leaving the original chat as is. You can also create a second branch from the first thread, or even create a branch of a branch.

Once you branch into a discussion, you can do things like explore different options suggested by the AI ​​(“tell me more about option B”) without unduly cluttering the context of the discussion. You can also experiment with how the AI ​​reacts to slight differences in the wording or tone of your prompt.

Neither Claude nor Gemini have native branching features in their standard chat apps (Claude Code lets you “create” a chat thread).

You could try to plug a Claudius or Gemini conversation by editing one of your replies or regenerating the template replies, but this clears the next thread.