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AI Models (3)

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Deploying AI Without Compromising Trust: Secure Options for Association Data

The AI headlines that dominate your social media feed typically showcase the flashiest innovations—humanoid robots navigating obstacle courses,...

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AI's Compression Revolution: Microsoft's Phi-4 Models and the Trendline Associations Should Watch

Microsoft recently released the Phi-4 family of models, a new collection of small language models with remarkable reasoning capabilities. While new...

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Fargo vs. Klarna & The Rise of Reasoning Models | [Sidecar Sync Episode 81]

Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias explore Wells Fargo’s virtual assistant “Fargo” and how it stacks up...

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AI and the Future of Work: Data-Backed Insights from Anthropic's Economic Index

AI is transforming the professional landscape.

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Model Context Protocol: The USB-C Revolution for AI in Associations

Whether you're an iPhone or Android person, you're probably familiar with Apple's charging woes. For years, users had to buy different types of...

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draco the data dragon and ai investment

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Don’t Be the Last Store in Bend, Oregon: Why Associations Must Invest in Innovation, Even in a Downturn

...Starring Draco the Data Dragon, Mira the Metrics Monster, and a cautionary tale about the blue-and-yellow empire that once ruled Friday night...

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Evaluating AI Models for Your Association: Lessons from LLAMA 4

10 million token context windows. 109 billion total parameters. Mixture of experts (MOE) architecture. Natively multimodal capabilities.

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