Autodesk, Inc.

I want to play video games tonight.

Do you think Autodesk and ESRI software can ever be replaced by AI? As a civil engineer, I hope so.

Kev, I do not see any stumbling blocks to it.

Essentially, any software, as long as they have enough training data, so like problem definition, input, output, As long as there is enough of it, AI companies should be able to incorporate that data into the training phase and more importantly, the post-training phases, like in the reinforcement learning stages of the model development process to make it good, right? The fact that they have AIs that has gone through reinforcement learning for areas like legal, right? And for areas like hardware engineering and things like that, If they could do that, I definitely think Autodesk skills is something that could conceivably be done.

So that's my honest opinion on this.

Okay.

They did a mocap demo.

Autodesk teamed up with this other company.

And at that time, mocap was a tethered suit.

There was like a plug that would go into your back that would connect to the harness and all the things.

Construction document set, sections, elevations, details, door and finish schedules, the lot, checking load, local code requirements as it goes, a 50,000 square foot office building that normally takes two to four weeks of manual documentation gets a full sheet set generated in hours, ready for human review.

Autodesk and Trimble are both building this

straight into the mainstream platforms

rather than leaving it to plugins.

There's Spot in the Creative Boundary.

Autodesk, same with Spot, a juggling while trying to solve XYZ business challenge.

And like, it creates this little moment where I have now affected the prompt or the output.

And people love it when their content is extra personalized, right? So like, in the beginning, we'd sell an AI photo booth and the client was totally jazzed to see like 600 people become...

Number one, direct B-Wrap neural architectures predicting topology natively.

Number two, standardized CAD MCP servers released by majors like Autodesk and Onshape.

Number three, continuous action robotics policies using flow matching, pushing control above 50 hertz.

Number four, authenticated B2B quoting APIs built strictly for agents.

There's Spot in the Creative Boundary.

Autodesk, same with Spot, a juggling while trying to solve XYZ business challenge.

And like, it creates this little moment where I have now affected the prompt or the output.

And people love it when their content is extra personalized, right? So like, in the beginning, we'd sell an AI photo booth and the client was totally jazzed to see like 600 people become...

And like all of these elements just kind of came together, but then it created something completely unique.

Other thing that was happening at TIFF, so I had to leave before this panel happened, but Autodesk was also running a panel.

And they were more focused on Flow Studio.

So Flow Studio is their AI-centric

Interesting.

While still having that level of...

I think Autodesk sees that their revenue is in sort of Maya licenses and things like that, right? Like their bread and butter is maybe on the animation side more so than the live action side.

And so they're trying to capture or recapture that market with sort of the next generation of tooling, which is Flow Studio.

And I will say the software itself There are like two main platforms.

Revit, which is Autodesk company.

I'm sure you've heard of it.

A lot of your users or audience has heard of it as well.