Claude can now import chat histories from ChatGPT (and other AIs)

Anthropic has released a new Import Memory tool that lets you “switch to Claude without starting over.” In short, this new tool makes it extremely easy to import chat histories from other AI chatbots (including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot) into Claude, reports Engadget.

The Import Memory tool creates a text prompt that you’ll copy into Claude. Afterwards, the chatbot can then continue conversations from other AI platforms and resume from where you left off.

It’ll take about 24 hours for Claude to absorb the memories. You can also view and adjust what’s saved in memory after importing.

The new tool comes at a critically important time, as Claude explodes in popularity following its unwillingness to compromise on two key issues relating to how AI is used by the government: “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons.”

Thousands of users worldwide are now leaving platforms like ChatGPT in favor of Claude, and this import tool will make that switch easier.