You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

Google is launching a direct assault on the AI chatbot market share held by OpenAI and Anthropic with new 'switching tools' for Gemini. The feature allows users to import their entire chat history from competitors like ChatGPT and Claude by simply uploading a zip file, a format most chatbots support for export. More strategically, it also lets users transfer their personal 'memories'—key facts, preferences, and context they've shared with other assistants. Gemini guides this process by generating a specific prompt for users to run in their current chatbot, which then produces a response that can be copied back into Gemini, effectively coaching users on what personal data to port over.

This move is a clear play to reduce the significant friction and 'retraining' cost that prevents users from switching AI assistants. By allowing seamless transfer of both conversational history and personal context, Google aims to make Gemini instantly useful for defectors. The announcement comes as Google revealed Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users, still trailing behind ChatGPT's recently announced 900 million weekly active users. Despite Google's massive distribution advantages via Android and Chrome, this toolset is a tactical effort to close the consumer mindshare gap by eliminating a major barrier to adoption.