What’s happened? Anthropic is adding another handy feature to its Claude AI assistant, just a week after launching the Skills system that lets users enhance its performance for specific tasks.
- The new Memory feature enables Claude to remember details from past conversations, allowing it to offer contextual responses.
- The feature is designed to help Claude understand users’ professional context and work patterns, and it can even create distinct memory spaces for users managing multiple Projects.
- ChatGPT and Gemini already offer similar functionality, but Anthropic claims Claude’s approach offers better transparency, allowing users to see exactly what it remembers and make edits through natural conversation.
- Users also get granular controls, including the ability to disable the feature, delete specific memories, or use Incognito chats when they don’t want past chats to influence responses.
Why is this important? Claude’s Memory feature will make it easier for users to reference details from past chats and improve the assistant’s problem-solving capabilities.
- In a press release, Anthropic says that the feature will eliminate the “friction of starting over,” helping research papers build on accumulated sources, startup pitches evolve with each iteration, and code retain environment setup and patterns.
- The flexibility of having distinct memory spaces should also help users keep contextual information about work projects separate from creative musings.
Why should I care? With the Memory feature, each new conversation with Claude won’t feel like a blank slate.
- It will help Claude remember your preferences, ongoing projects, and past instructions, effectively reducing the time you spend repeating yourself.
- The feature will also improve Claude’s responses, helping it offer you more tailored, context-aware help.
What’s next? Claude’s Memory feature is rolling out to subscribers on the Pro and Max plans.
- Max subscribers should see the feature in Settings today, while Pro subscribers will have to wait a few more days.
- Users have the option to build Claude’s memory bank from existing conversations or start afresh.
- ChatGPT and Gemini users can easily import memory into Claude via copy-paste or export Claude’s memory to one of these services.
