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Artificial Intelligence (9)

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...

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI Open Source

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GPT-5: Revolutionary Leap or Overhyped Update? What Associations Need to Know

Mallory Mejias: Aug 18, 2025 1:02:03 PM

OpenAI's latest flagship model promises to "just do stuff"—that's how AI researcher and Wharton professor Ethan Mollick describes GPT-5's core...

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI

Sidecar Sync podcast Episode 95 cover image featuring co-hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, with the tagline 'AI Knowledge for Associations' and images of phones showing 'Introducing GPT-5'.

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GPT-5 Has Landed & OpenAI Opens Up | [Sidecar Sync Episode 95]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 15, 2025 12:46:17 PM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into two groundbreaking releases from OpenAI: the long-awaited...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast OpenAI Open Source

Sidecar Sync Episode 92 cover with hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, tagline ‘AI Knowledge for Associations,’ and cartoon robots on both sides.

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Physical AI: The Robot Takeover We Actually Want | [Sidecar Sync Episode 92]

Mallory Mejias: Jul 25, 2025 2:45:19 PM

Summary: Are we ready for a world where AI agents write our blogs and robots clean our homes? In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast Robotics Physical AI

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When a 16-Year-Old Teaches AI: The Conor and Finn Grennan Story

Mallory Mejias: Jul 21, 2025 2:20:56 PM

The organizations Conor Grennan has trained on generative AI are undeniably impressive: OpenAI, McKinsey, Google, JP Morgan, NASA. But perhaps more...

Artificial Intelligence Education Technology