Google announced a new set of tools for its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant that let people bring chat history and contextual cues from other AI apps into Gemini. The company said the new import option, described in a blog post, accepts zipped files of conversations and is available to both free and paid Gemini accounts.
To simplify the transfer, Google published a suggested prompt that users can run inside their other AI assistants. The prompt begins with the instruction: "You are helping me import context from one AI assistant to another." It then guides the extraction of details the user has previously shared with the other assistant, asking for items such as demographic information, active interests and preferences, sustained relationships, dated plans and any additional instructions provided to that assistant.
Users are expected to paste the resulting output into Gemini's settings. Google said the imported material will be used to "quickly get Gemini up to speed on what matters most to you," allowing the assistant to incorporate prior context and preferences more rapidly.
The new import function is explicitly positioned as a way to ease moving between AI platforms. Google identified competitors by example, noting users of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC's Claude as potential targets for the capability. The announcement follows a similar feature release from Anthropic; the company introduced a memory import option earlier this month.
The company framed the feature as a user-focused convenience for bringing existing conversational context into Gemini, and made the import process available across account tiers. The blog post outlines the prompt structure and the type of personal and conversational data worth transferring, but does not add further operational details about processing or retention within Gemini's settings beyond the stated goal of accelerating personalization.
Summary: Google added an import option to Gemini that lets users upload zipped chat histories and context from other AI assistants. A provided prompt template helps extract demographic details, preferences, relationships, dated plans, and other instructions, and the output is pasted into Gemini settings to accelerate personalization. The feature targets users of rivals such as ChatGPT and Claude; Anthropic introduced a comparable import feature earlier this month.