Investing.com -- Google released new tools for its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant on Thursday that will let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps.

The Alphabet Inc. company added a new import option in Gemini so that free and paid users can upload zipped files of their conversations with other AI providers, it said in a blog post.

To aid the switch, Google provides a detailed prompt that users can offer as instructions for their other apps: "You are helping me import context from one AI assistant to another." The prompt asks people to note any demographic information, active interests and preferences, sustained relationships, dated plans and any other instructions they had disclosed to their other chat assistants.

The output, which people paste into Gemini's settings, will be used to "quickly get Gemini up to speed on what matters most to you," Google said.

The move targets users of rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC's Claude. Anthropic released a similar memory import feature earlier this month.