Mallory Mejias

Mallory Mejias is passionate about creating opportunities for association professionals to learn, grow, and better serve their members using artificial intelligence. She enjoys blending creativity and innovation to produce fresh, meaningful content for the association space. Mallory co-hosts and produces the Sidecar Sync podcast, where she delves into the latest trends in AI and technology, translating them into actionable insights.

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The Rocky Rollout: What OpenAI's GPT-5 Launch Teaches Associations About Innovation

Mallory Mejias: Aug 28, 2025 1:30:52 PM

Have you tested out GPT-5? You might have noticed it's been a bit buggy. Connection failures, voice mode not working, responses that feel oddly cold compared to GPT-4. You're not alone. Even OpenAI, with 700 million weekly active users and virtually...

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Open Models Are Getting Smaller, Smarter, and More Practical

Mallory Mejias: Aug 26, 2025 10:25:38 AM

The open source AI movement continues to accelerate. Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google have all released open models in recent...

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Sidecar Sync podcast Episode 95 cover image featuring co-hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, with the tagline 'AI Knowledge for Associations'

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Rapid Fire AI Updates & The Coming Energy Reckoning | [Sidecar Sync Episode 96]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 25, 2025 6:48:46 PM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias tackle the latest developments in AI with a fast-paced series of...

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From 250,000 Hot Dogs to One: How Biology Will Transform AI Economics

Mallory Mejias: Aug 25, 2025 6:06:41 PM

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat across from IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer in one of history's most famous matches. Kasparov's brain...

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A car dashboard GPS display in dark mode shows three route options to “AI Success” from “Your Association”: a blue toll road (Proprietary APIs, fastest, $$$$), a green balanced route (Open Models as Service, 25 min, $$), and an orange scenic no-toll route (Self-Hosted, 45 min, $), with a glowing AI brain icon marking the destination.

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Big Models, Small Models, Open, Closed: Making Sense of Your AI Options

Mallory Mejias: Aug 20, 2025 6:00:00 AM

GPT-5. Claude 4.1 Opus. Qwen. Llama. The new gpt-oss models. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the avalanche of AI options, you're not alone. Every...

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OpenAI Embraces 'Open' AI—What It Means for Associations

Mallory Mejias: Aug 19, 2025 6:00:00 AM

OpenAI—the company that arguably put the "closed" in closed-source AI—just released their first open models in six years. As HubSpot Co-Founder and...

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