Sidecar Sync
Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Mission-Driven Models, AGI on the Horizon, & the AI Infrastructure Crunch | 93
49 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2025 at 10:00 am.
Meet Chai the Puppy & Summer Catch-Up
MemberJunction & AI Agents
Why Enterprise Loves Anthropic
Trust, Mission, and Long-Term Thinking
Anthropic vs. Everyone Else
How Close Are We to AGI?
Superintelligence and Societal Disruption
Will AGI Arrive All at Once?
AI’s Power Problem: Infrastructure at Scale
Nuclear Energy’s Comeback?
Final Thoughts
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan cover a trio of urgent topics shaping the AI landscape. They kick off with Anthropic’s surprising rise to enterprise dominance—fueled not despite, but because of its safety-first approach. From there, the conversation heats up around accelerating predictions for artificial general intelligence (AGI), with some forecasting human-level AI by 2027. Finally, the hosts zoom out to tackle the hidden but massive inf...