Bloomberg: Sequoia’s plan for three VC firms represents a major shift due to rising US-China tensions and signals that China ties are a growing liability in Silicon Valley  —  Sequoia Capital’s plan to split itself into three separate regional firms represents a major shift at one the world’s foremost venture capital firms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: A profile of Christopher Bouzy, the CEO of Twitter analytics startup Bot Sentinel, and his attempts to build Twitter rival Spoutible, starting in November 2022  —  When Elon Musk’s reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn’t just go looking for a rival place to post. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Morgan Sung / TechCrunch: Luka, which develops Replika, launches Blush, an AI chatbot service to help users with “relationship and intimacy skills” via characters Klea, Aisha, and Theo  —  The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Contextual AI, which is building enterprise-focused LLMs, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures  —  Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries.  But they suffer from limitations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic to test a service for making AI chatbots and search apps; Mayo created a tool that helps staff find patient data and more  —  – Google Cloud on Wednesday said Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that lets companies create customized chatbots. Lees verder op Tech Meme