In summary:
- PCWorld reports that Anthropic is rolling out Claude AI’s memory feature to free users, allowing the chatbot to recall past conversations for more personalized responses.
- This capability was previously exclusive to paying subscribers since August 2025 and enables more relevant interactions by remembering user preferences and context.
- Users maintain full control over their stored memories, with options to pause, save, or delete conversation data from Anthropic’s servers at any time.
Anthropic is now making the memory feature in its AI chatbot Claude available to free users as well, Engadget reports. The feature allows Claude to remember and refer to previous conversations to provide more relevant and personalized responses.
Claude memory was originally launched for paying users in August 2025 and was later updated with the ability to split and organize saved memories. The feature is optional. Users can pause it and keep saved data for later, or delete memories altogether from Anthropic’s servers.
This rollout to free users comes at the same time that Anthropic has made it easier to migrate chat histories from competing AI services.
Claude is exploding in popularity after Anthropic stood up to the US government and refused to compromise on two key principles: not allowing its AI to be used for “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons.”
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Viktor Eriksson, Contributor, PCWorld
Viktor writes news and reports for our sister sites, M3 and PC för Alla. He is passionate about technology and is on the ball with the latest product releases and the hottest talking points in the consumer tech industry.