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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...

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...

Artificial Intelligence Closed AI Model OpenAI Open Source Anthropic

Vintage comic book illustration of a magician pulling colorful ribbons of binary code and circuits from a USB stick, with the word “BEHOLD!” in a speech bubble and “WHOOSH” sound effects in the background.

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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 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

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

Mallory Mejias: May 13, 2025 3:42:36 PM

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

AI Models Open Source Microsoft

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