Anthropic is making it easier for users of competing chatbots to switch to its own chatbot, Claude. A new memory import tool allows users to bring their conversation history and preferences with them.
Anthropic has introduced a memory import feature for its Claude chatbot. The new import feature allows users to import their conversations from other chatbots such as ChatGPT or Gemini and continue directly in Claude. The functionality is designed as a simple copy/paste solution to preserve context and preferences from other AI providers.
Users are given a specific prompt that they can paste into another chatbot, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot. This chatbot then exports its data into a code block. This block can be pasted into Claude’s settings under the “Memory” section, after which the import will start. According to Anthropic, it can take up to 24 hours for the memory to be fully assimilated.
Rapid growth
Currently, the Claude infrastructure is buckling under the growing popularity of the service. The API and chatbot portal are partially available. These problems seem to have a clear cause: the massive adoption growth after Anthropic refused to comply with the US Pentagon’s request to abandon its own AI guardrails. OpenAI soon emerged as Anthropic’s replacement for the US government, seemingly willing to release certain AI limits or under different conditions. In any case, this seems to have prompted users to make the leap from ChatGPT to Claude.
The new feature makes that step a lot easier. Other chatbots also offer the ability to customize memory and specify certain preferences, but switching from another chatbot is more manual and less elegant than is now the case with Claude. Google is reportedly working on its own method to facilitate such a switch from competing chatbots to Gemini.