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Visa launches Olympic Mentors scheme
LONDON: Visa EU, a subsidiary of Visa International, has announced the launch of ‘Team Visa’, an integrated sponsorship programme across a number of European markets that combines the popularity and appeal of famous Olympic greats (‘Olympic Mentors’) with the positive influence they will have on the up and coming Olympic and Paralympic stars (Olympic ‘Hopefuls’).
Visa International is a worldwide Olympic partner and the exclusive payment card of next year’s Olympic games in Greece. An official release informs that this is an expansion of Visa’s commitment to the Olympic Movement, National Olympic Committees and national teams, which has been an important factor in ensuring the continuance and success of the Olympic Games.
Across Europe, Visa, in partnership with its member banks, will be supporting a large group of Olympic ‘Hopefuls’. This refers to athletes with potential to get into their national teams for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games or Paralympic Games – through direct financial contributions. These can be used by the athletes to pay for their training and travelling expenses, as well as on-going advise and support from the Team Visa ‘Mentors’.
Visa EU’s executive VP relationship management and marketing Steve Perry said, “We are supporting Team Visa across Europe because the Olympics are all about having pride in your national team, about celebrating national differences and backing local heroes.
Some of the athletes in Team Visa in the UK are 400m Sprinter Daniel Caines who is ranked No.1 in Great Britain, Leanda Cave who became the first ever British female triathlete to win the World Triathlon title in 2002.
The release states that there is a perfect synergy between Visa EU’s brand strategy of ‘The Future Takes Visa’ and supporting the Olympic Hopefuls through Team Visa – the up and coming athletes of the future. The Olympic Hopefuls are critical to the integration of the Olympics within ‘The Future Takes Visa’ as they provide the perfect link between the brand strategy and Olympic values.
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Galleri5 launches India’s first AI cinema OS at India AI Summit
Collective Artists Network unveils end-to-end production platform powering Mahabharat series and Hanuman teaser.
MUMBAI: India’s cinema just got an AI operating system upgrade because why settle for tools when you can have a full production command centre? Collective Artists Network and Galleri5 today unveiled Galleri5 AI Studio at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, billing it as the country’s first cinema-native production technology platform. Launched on 20 February 2026, the system acts as an end-to-end orchestration layer for film and television, integrating generative AI, LoRA-driven character architecture, controlled shot pipelines, 3D/VFX tools, lip-sync, upscaling, quality control, and delivery, all tuned for theatrical and broadcast standards.
Unlike piecemeal AI tools, Galleri5 controls the entire stack from script and world-building to final master output. Filmmakers retain creative authorship, continuity, and IP security while slashing timelines from years to months.
The platform is already in live use at scale. Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh, an AI-powered series produced under Collective’s Historyverse banner, is airing on Star Plus and streaming on JioHotstar, ranking among the top-watched shows in its slot. Meanwhile, Chiranjeevi Hanuman – The Eternal (produced by Star Studios 18) dropped its teaser on IMAX screens, leveraging Galleri5’s infrastructure for the visuals.
Collective Artists Network founder and group CEO Vijay Subramaniam said, “For India to lead in the next era of storytelling, we have to think beyond tools and start building systems. This is about putting durable production infrastructure in place so creators can dream bigger, producers can execute faster, and our stories can travel further.”
Galleri5 partner at Collective and CEO Rahul Regulapati added, “Cinema requires precision, repeatability, and control. Off-the-shelf AI doesn’t solve that. Orchestration does. We built an operating system where technology bends to filmmaking, not the other way around.”
Under Historyverse, Collective Studios is developing a slate including Hanuman, Krishna, Shiva, and Shivaji blending advanced AI systems with traditional craft. The summit session featured directors from Hanuman, Krishna, and Shiva alongside Collective leaders, diving into real-world case studies: what delivers on screen, what glitches, and how production economics are shifting.
At a summit packed with global tech brass and policymakers, Galleri5 stakes a bold claim, cinema’s future belongs to integrated systems, not isolated gadgets and India is building one right now. Whether you’re a filmmaker eyeing faster workflows or just curious about AI remaking epics, this OS could be the script-flip the industry didn’t see coming.
