Had an insane week representing AMD at Microsoft Build!!
Some highlights:
- I was able to build an entire game in minutes, offline on Claude code with Lemonade server. completely free, NO TOKEN COST 🔥 All inference running locally in our Ryzen AI halo box. Huge thanks to Jeremy Fowers Ramakrishnan Sivakumar and our lemonade community for building something so impressive!
Rubbed shoulders with incredible thought leaders and AI enthusiasts: Patrick and Benjamin Tareau @ Red Bull, Damien DeHart @ Aikido, Bruno Yoffe ☕️ @ Replit, Brett Boresow @ Visa, Han Xiao @ Elastic, and Edward Robinson @ Arize to name a few!
Also had the privilege of showing off some of our partners who are building incredible agentic experiences on the edge - AnythingLLM with Timothy Carambat , LLMWare.ai with Namee Oberst and Darren Oberst , and Microsoft Foundry with Baldwin N.
Some other conversations I really enjoyed: Adil Arya Jurre Brandsen Theodoor P. Dinesh Umasankar Charlie Misbach Reagan Topps Benjamin M. Mandip [Mans] Bhuller
My main takeaways:
- The tokenomics equation is not adding up, and the industry is starting to feel the heat. Long-term AI adoption will not come until solutions can keep costs predictable, protect data privacy, and have quantifiable ROI.
- Local and edge AI is THE solution to token cost, and very soon will become a core part of every company’s stack.
- Agents need to be more proactive, intuitive, and contextual. The more work they can do without being asked, the more useful they are.
Now looking forward to Advancing AI 2026 🚀
Rakesh Anigundi Adrian Macias Zeena Benjamin Tim Amundsen Raj Puran Joshua H. Jaydev Shelat Kiriti Nagesh Gowda