Anthropic’s Claude can now absorb your past conversations with other AI chatbots
Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all memories and context from a competing AI chatbot into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude.
With Anthropic’s prompt, you can then copy and paste the result into Claude’s memories, and the AI chatbot will pick up where you left off with another AI chatbot, whether it’s ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. Anthropic said it will take about 24 hours for Claude to assimilate the new context, but you can see the change by clicking the “See what Claude has learned about you” button. Claude users can even change what the AI chatbot remembers in the “Manage Memory” section of the app settings. Anthropic noted that Claude is expected to focus on “work-related topics to improve his effectiveness as a collaborator,” adding that he may not remember personal details unrelated to work.
Anthropic’s timing doesn’t appear to be a mere coincidence. Claude recently rose to first place in the App Store’s free apps ranking, dethroning ChatGPT. The rise in popularity likely stems from its recent dispute with the Department of Defense, where Anthropic refused to budge on AI guardrails related to mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. On the other hand, OpenAI will take over Anthropic’s vacant role with the Department of Defense, leading to a trend of users boycotting ChatGPT and canceling their subscriptions.
