Anthropic enhances Claude’s memory to appeal to AI switchers

Anthropic is facilitating smoother transitions to its Claude AI from other chatbots by releasing an update that adds Claude’s memory feature for users on the free plan, accompanied by a new prompt and specialized tool for data importing from different chatbots. These enhancements could enable users currently utilizing competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini to swiftly transfer the information that their chosen AI has gathered about them to Anthropic’s chatbot. This means they won’t have to “start anew” instructing Claude on the context and history that their previous chatbot already possesses.

The ability to import and export memories from Claude has been available since October, when Anthropic introduced the option for users to activate Claude’s memory. Until now, the memory feature was restricted to users with paid Claude subscriptions, but now all Claude users can enable it by navigating to “settings” and selecting “capabilities.” Within this menu, users can also access the new memory importing tool, which instructs them to copy a pre-formulated prompt into their previous AI and then transfer the output back into Claude’s importing feature.

Anthropic is rolling out the updated memory importing tool as Claude is gaining traction, boosted by features like Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Last month, Anthropic debuted its new Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models, which the firm claims excel in coding and managing complex tasks like navigating spreadsheets or completing forms.

Anthropic has also been drawing significant attention lately after standing firm against requests from the Pentagon to ease the safeguards on its AI models, with the organization publicly announcing that they established “red lines” regarding mass surveillance and fully automated lethal weapons.