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India launches its first AI industry body
MUMBAI: India just gave artificial intelligence its own rules of engagement. The Artificial Intelligence Association of India (AIAI) has officially launched as the country’s first dedicated industry body for AI, aiming to steer the ethical, inclusive and innovation-driven growth of artificial intelligence across India’s creative and technology sectors. Think of it as a referee, coach and cheerleader all rolled into one, making sure AI plays fair whilst helping India score big.
Led by National Convenor Sandeep Goyal, AIAI arrives at a pivotal moment when India’s AI ecosystem is expanding rapidly but operating without formal guardrails. The association will bring together technologists, creators, legal experts, educators and industry stakeholders spanning advertising, design, film, music, gaming, publishing and emerging tech sectors.
“AI is no longer the future. It is the now,” Goyal said. “And India cannot afford to be a passive consumer in this revolution. With AIAI, we are building the ethical and institutional guardrails that ensure India’s creative industries not only thrive with AI, but do so on their own terms.”
The association has outlined five key objectives for responsible AI adoption:
Policy and advocacy: AIAI will represent creative industries in AI consultations with MeitY, DPIIT and Niti Aayog, giving creatives a seat at the policy table.
Ethical standards: The body will develop certification frameworks for ethical AI practices across advertising, film, music and design.
Skilling and inclusion: AIAI aims to train over 10,000 creative professionals in AI tools and workflows by 2026.
Research and development: The association will incubate India-focused AI tools for content creation, translation, personalisation and storytelling.
Creative IP protection: AIAI will lead efforts to safeguard artist attribution, combat deepfakes and evolve copyright rules for AI-generated content.
AIAI plans to establish “ethical sandboxes” for testing AI use cases and a national AI incident registry to track challenges such as bias, misinformation, deepfake misuse and copyright concerns. It’s basically building a playground where AI can experiment safely whilst someone watches to make sure nobody gets hurt.
“Creative AI isn’t just a technology story,” Goyal emphasised. “It’s a story about what kind of country we want to be, how we preserve language, culture, livelihoods and imagination in a time of machines. This is India’s moment to lead, not follow. And AIAI will make sure we do.”
The governing board, set to include senior leaders from major corporations and multiple creative domains, will be announced shortly. For now, India’s AI revolution has found its institutional voice, and it’s speaking with one clear message: India won’t just adopt AI. It will shape it.
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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.
