Sidecar Sync
Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Kimi K2.5’s Swarm of Agents, Claude Goes Vertical, and AI Data Centers in Space | 120
51 minutes Posted Feb 5, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Winter Storms & Hackathons
Sneak Peek: Sidecar’s Upcoming Audio Agent
What is Kimi K2.5? A Multimodal Swarming Model
Agent Swarms: What’s Actually New Here?
Visual Inputs and AI Understanding of Interfaces
AI Screen Navigation: Slow Now, Fast Soon
Claude Cowork Plugins & Big AI Going Vertical
Should Associations Worry About AI in Their Vertical?
Data Platforms: The Missing Link for AI Readiness
SpaceX + xAI = Orbital AI Compute
Key Takeaways for Association Leaders
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Send us Fan Mail In this high-octane episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith and Mallory cover an ambitious trio of AI developments with massive implications for associations. They dive into Kimi K2.5, a Chinese open-source model built for multimodal agent swarms that rival GPT-5.2 at a fraction of the cost. Then, they explore Claude’s new domain-specific plugins for Cowork and what it means for associations when Big AI moves into vertical markets like legal and finance. Finally, they unpack Elon Musk...