CLAUDE MEMORY: A DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY

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Claude starts conversations with a blank slate and only activates memory when users explicitly invoke it. It recalls by only referring to users' raw conversation history. ChatGPT's memory system exposes interaction metadata, recent conversation context, model set context, and user knowledge memories alongside the system prompt. That the two top assistants have built completely opposing memory systems shows that memory in AI has a massive design space with no right answer or one-size-fits-all technique.