Autodesk’s AI and Cloud Innovations at AU 2025

AU 2025, Autodesk's Design & Make conference kicked off yesterday with an opening General Session from CEO Andrew Anagnost. During his talk, Andrew highlighted the work Autodesk does to drive meaningful impact across the industries we serve.

"Our mission is to unlock capacity and create opportunities, such as housing that shelters billions, resilient infrastructure to withstand centuries, products that redefine what's possible, and powerful content that shapes how we experience the world," said Andrew.

"At AU 2025, we're showing how we're building the path to the future for our customers with solutions that are cloud-based, AI-native and end-to-end, connecting people, processes, and data across the entire project lifecycle. They integrate seamlessly with the tools our customers already use, enabling transformation without disruption," he continued.

Andrew was joined onstage by other Autodeskers to provide live demonstrations of the new features of Forma and Fusion, while also highlighting and showcasing how Autodesk continues to help unlock human creativity with AI in media and entertainment via Autodesk Assistant and MotionMaker in Maya.

Yesterday afternoon, CTO Raji Arasu and SVP of Research Mike Haley presented the AI Industry Keynote. Raji kicked off the keynote saying, "AI breakthroughs are happening in months not years, and converging into systems that are far more powerful than the sum of their parts."

She continued, "AI is pushing all of us to rethink how we work and reimagine what's possible. Our teams are diving into AI with passion reimagining what's possible for you."

Raji discussed how Autodesk teams have evolved Autodesk Assistant into an agentic AI partner for Design and Make powered by trusted, enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and high-value APIs.

Mike took the stage to share more about work from Autodesk Research, including neural AI foundation models to transform design and make. Neural CAD for buildings enables customers to quickly transition between early design concepts and more detailed building layouts and systems. Neural CAD for geometry can create designs spontaneously based on a text prompt.

"Let's continue to imagine a future where design and make is more accessible than ever," said Mike.

Catch up on yesterday's General Session to hear from Andrew, to see demos, and to learn about how customers are using Autodesk tools. Stay tuned to watch Raji and Mike in the AI Industry Keynote, and follow along as Autodesk Researchers share their work at AU.