Claude Can Now Reference Your Past Chats

By Admin

13 Aug, 2025

A major upgrade in conversational AI
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its AI platform, Claude, allowing it to reference a user’s past conversations to provide more relevant and personalised responses in ongoing chats. This update is currently rolling out to Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with other plans expected to get access soon. Users can enable or disable the feature manually in Settings once available.

User reactions: A welcome improvement
The announcement was met with widespread praise from users. Many described it as a much-needed quality-of-life improvement that could eliminate what one user called “copy-paste hell” and reduce issues from models running out of context. Another user on X stated, “I like the transparency of this more than a generic ‘memory’.”

How it differs from ChatGPT’s approach
Earlier in April, OpenAI introduced a similar feature in ChatGPT that enables referencing all past conversations. However, some users prefer Claude’s implementation. Matthew Pulsipher, a product manager, noted on X, “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.”

Transparency at the core
One key difference is Claude’s emphasis on openness   in demos, the AI clearly shows the names of previous chats it is referring to, giving users a clearer understanding of what’s influencing its responses. This transparency, many say, builds more trust.

Recent advancements in Claude models
This update follows a series of improvements to the Claude platform. Earlier this year, Anthropic released the Claude 4 Opus model, followed by the Claude 4.1 Opus, which brought enhanced reasoning, coding capabilities, and better agentic task performance.

With this latest feature, Anthropic is not only improving conversational continuity but also setting a standard for transparency in AI interactions  something users are increasingly valuing in their everyday digital tools.