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Claude AI now lets you copy memories from another AI service.
The goal is to help you easily switch to Claude.
The process uses instructions that you can copy and paste.
Many AI tools offer a memory feature that lets them gather and store details about you from your conversations or from what you tell them directly. The purpose is to better personalize your chats based on your background, job, hobbies, and interests. But creating this type of in-depth memory can take a while. Now Anthropic's Claude AI has cooked up a quick and simple way to tranfer your memories from elsewhere.
With the new memory import option, you can transfer memories to Claude from another AI, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot. The objective is to help you switch to Claude without having to start over with fresh new memories and other preferences.
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Claude has been picking up a lot of steam lately, as evidenced by the iOS app's top spot among free apps in Apple's App Store. At the same time, ChatGPT is being hit by a QuitGPT campaign. Clearly, Anthropic smelled an opportunity here to encourage people looking to jump ship to its own AI. Even if you're not quitting another AI but simply want to give Claude the same memories, you can still use the memory import tool.
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