Overview
- Google, which began rolling out the tools Thursday, lets Gemini import personal memory via a copy‑paste prompt or bring in past chats with ZIP uploads.
- The features are available to free and paid consumer accounts, but not to business, enterprise, or under‑18 users, and they are unavailable in the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.
- Users can upload exports from ChatGPT or Claude at gemini.google.com/import, with up to five ZIP files per day at 5 GB each, and the imported threads appear with an import icon, are searchable, and can be deleted or overwritten on reupload.
- Early hands‑on tests report that imported memory shapes replies right away, while uploaded chat logs work more like a searchable archive that needs prompting to reuse details.
- Google is renaming “past chats” to “memory,” and the move follows rivals like Anthropic adding similar import tools, signaling a broader push for portability that lowers the cost of switching.