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09/01/2026

Somewhere out there is a very large software company that reportedly burned its entire annual AI budget by June. Their fix? Pull the engineers off their favorite coding agent. Which does stop the bleeding... but you don't hire developers so they can ration their autocomplete.

The better approach here is making each request cost less.
Most of what devs run all day (refactors, test scaffolding, commit summaries) runs fine on an open model on your own GPUs, and you save the frontier APIs for the requests that need the big brain engines.

Our TCO calculator shows what that setup would save your team, if anything. Every default is sourced, with the citation sitting right on the page, and you can yank the levers as much as you like.

Paul Thompson's blog has the assumptions behind the calculator numbers, plus an honest take on who shouldn't bother 👉 https://okt.to/4VITDE

09/01/2026

An annual token budget, gone in one quarter.
That's the kind of story Vultr's Duncan keeps hearing from enterprise customers, and it's why AI coding costs have become a CFO conversation, with data sovereignty concerns riding along.

It all came up in a roundtable at AMD Advancing AI 2026, hosted by Supermicro's Wesley Li with Linda Yang, Duncan Ng and our CEO Tenry Fu.

They talked about how AMD Instinct™ Coder keeps the meter under control, with everyday coding work running locally on your own hardware, and every request being metered so the spend stays visible.

Tenry also gets into the history behind our layer of Instinct Coder, built on years of edge deployments with Supermicro, retail and industrial, long before AI coding was the use case.

Catch up on their conversation here 👉 https://okt.to/0vOYDI

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08/31/2026

Day 1 of LEAP is a wrap!
We spent the day with AMD and Supermicro, and the conversations about AMD Instinct™ Coder were as exciting as it gets. We never get tired of showing what local-first inference on infrastructure you own can do for AI-assisted coding.

It was a great start, and we're here all week. So come say hi at Hall 1, stand 121, if you're around too.

More about our AMD partnership here 👉 https://okt.to/kh0QYs

08/31/2026

We can give you ten reasons to choose us as your AI infrastructure partner. And they're basically the same ten reasons many other enterprises already chose us, as told by the people who hear it first hand: our sales and customer success teams.

The big one is that we own the full stack, from bare metal to model, where most platforms manage a single layer and leave the rest to you.

From there the list gets into the practical stuff, like why our validated AI stacks deploy in hours when a typical AI factory takes months, and how production workloads end up running at sites that don't have a data center next door.

You can see all ten in more detail here 👉 https://okt.to/SGwIxK

And because a list of claims is still a list of claims, we'd like to add an invitation: we're ready to back every one of them in your environment, with your teams, against your requirements.

So read the ten, then hold us to them.

Enterprise AI delivering full-stack infrastructure, validated AI stacks, GPU efficiency, sovereign-ready security, and end-to-end support across cloud, data center, edge, and air-gapped environments.

08/28/2026

It's no news AI coding has a cost problem, but this panel gets refreshingly concrete about it.
Teams everywhere are adopting agentic coding faster than they can get a hold on what it costs, and AMD Instinct™ Coder was built to give that control back with its local-first approach.

At AMD Advancing AI 2026, Supermicro's Linda Yang sat down with AMD's Kumaran Siva's, Vultr's Duncan Ng and our CEO Tenry Fu to unpack it from all sides.

They get into how the four companies fit together, why open models keep closing the gap on frontier capability, how to try the whole thing before buying, and what's on the roadmap beyond Instinct Coder.

Our favorite moment: Kumaran explaining how our partnership with AMD started and how we fit the appliance model they wanted to build.

The full conversation is well worth your 14 minutes 👉 https://okt.to/EhB1uq

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08/28/2026

Gotta love a good code review where nothing leaves the network.
That's one moment from Ray Krueger's PaletteAI Inference Launchpad demo worth pausing on: Claude Code reads through an entire project and flags the issues to fix, while every byte of it stays on one server in Ray's rack.

Sovereignty requirements met, and the tokens come from his own GPUs, "out of thin air" as he puts it, instead of a per-token bill from a provider.

The full demo has the "how" behind it: model routing, egress policies, team quotas, and the cost dashboard 👉 https://okt.to/tza0gG

08/27/2026

Anyone else looking forward to AI Infra Summit? 👀
From September 15 to 17, we'll be in Santa Clara, showing how local-first inferencing can give you back control of your token costs and your sensitive data.

Booth #646 is our spot, and we're also planning a few special presentations at AMD's booth to talk about our joint solution with them and Supermicro.

And that's not all we've got planned, so stay tuned! We'll share more here as we get closer.

If you want a preview of what we're bringing 👉 https://okt.to/F6zjyf

08/27/2026

This is not your average webinar.
It has 3 levels. And a boss fight.
On September 9, we're walking through the AI coding token cost problem the way you'd play it, one level at a time:

Level 1: the coin-op problem, why per-token pricing punishes success
Level 2: the routing architecture, local by default, frontier by policy, every token metered
Level 3: live demo, watch requests route in real time
Boss fight: the ROI math, calculate how much you could save

In this 30-minute play, Saad Malik and Kumaran Siva will give you the cheat code to keep playing with your AI tokens without breaking the bank.

Register here to join the game 👉 https://okt.to/yA1wCr

08/26/2026

AMD Instinct™ Coder is the validated, on-prem AI coding solution we partnered with AMD and Supermicro to build. It gives your engineering team the productivity of frontier AI coding on infrastructure you own, with predictable costs, and your prompts and code stay within your environment.

It covers three primary use cases:
🔸 Local-first coding assistance: open models like GLM-5.2 running on your on-prem AMD Instinct™ GPUs, serving the tools your developers already use, like Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code.

🔸 Frontier fallback under policy: when a request exceeds local model capability or falls inside a sensitivity threshold, the router falls back to a frontier model under the rules your platform team defines.

🔸 Cost visibility and governance: token metering, per-team quotas, audit trails, and side-by-side local vs. frontier dashboards, so you see what's being spent, on what, and by whom.

The full breakdown, specs and a TCO calculator are here 👉 https://okt.to/OMV2Wh

Cut token spend by 70% with governed local inference on hardware you control: AMD Instinct GPUs, Supermicro Servers, and Spectro Cloud PaletteAI Inference Launchpad.

08/25/2026

Zero to deployed app in under 10 minutes.
That's the story our CTO Saad Malik shared when he sat down with AMD's Kumaran Siva and our own Kyle Goodwin at Ai4: the first customer to get AMD Instinct™ Coder up and running didn't even have Claude Code installed when the Zoom call started.

Brew install, tenant created, quotas and egress policies set, and a two-tier Python app deployed before minute ten.

And the anecdote is just the appetizer.
The full conversation gets into why token costs took over every enterprise AI conversation, why DIY inference stacks are harder than they look, and what local-first means in practice.

Watch it here 👉 https://okt.to/5fV3Xx