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Claude can now be prompted to reference past user interactions.
The feature rolls out today to Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
It'll be turned on by default, but you can also switch it off.
Claude just got a major memory upgrade: Anthropic's flagship generative AI chatbot can now retrieve information from past conversations, the company announced Monday. The new feature is designed to enable a more streamlined, convenient, and personalized user experience.
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If you're collaborating with the chatbot on a project and need to take a break midway through, for example, you can come back and simply prompt it to pick up where you left off. In a YouTube video posted by Anthropic, a user tells the chatbot that they've just returned from vacation and asks for a reminder of what they'd been working on before they left. The chatbot is shown organizing the content of its conversations with the user from that time period by subject, narrowing the list down until it's able to clearly convey the specific task the user had been engaged in before their vacation, and suggesting a couple of next steps.
Users can now prompt Claude to pull information from all of their previous conversations, or from a specific project.
How much memory is enough - or too much?
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