Claude Can Now Reference Your Past Chats

Anthropic has announced that Claude, its conversational AI platform, can now use a user’s past conversations to provide more relevant and personalised responses in current chats. 

This feature is rolling out to Max, Team and Enterprise plans, with other plans stated to receive it soon. Once it is available for a user’s account on Claude, they can manually toggle this feature in Settings. 

Soon after the announcement, users expressed praise for this feature. Many called it a much-needed update and a big quality of life improvement. One user on X said that this will ‘solve the copy-paste hell’ and issues stemming from the model running out of context. 

In April, OpenAI rolled out a similar feature to ChatGPT that allows it to reference all past conversations. However, users were quick to compare this feature in ChatGPT and the recently announced one in Claude, with many preferring the latter. 

In a post on X, Matthew Pulsipher, a product manager, said, “It doesn’t appear that it builds a secret dossier or remembers specific facts like ChatGPT does. Instead, it searches past chats and (importantly) tells you when it’s doing it. If this is how it works, I much prefer this approach.”

Moreover, since Claude shows the names of the previous chats that it is referring to (as seen in the demo), one user said, “I like the transparency of this more than a generic ‘memory’.”

This year, Anthropic announced a long overdue update to the Opus family of models. A few months ago, the company launched the Claude 4 Opus model, and it has also recently introduced the Claude 4.1 Opus, an update that enhances reasoning, coding, and agentic task performance.