More than 10,000 ads and videos: Galleri5’s Indonesia AI plan

By Tom Whitfield

Galleri5 says G5 AI Studio combines more than 200 AI models and has been used to make more than 10,000 ads and videos. JioStar and Collective Media Network launched “Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh,” and Galleri5 built and ran the AI filmmaking technology behind the Star Plus and JioHotstar series.

Galleri5 is now partnering with Historyverse, which handles original IP and studio work for Collective Artists Network, and Singhasari Special Economic Zone. The three partners plan film and series properties drawn from Indonesia’s myths and history.

The partnership covers:

• mythology
• fantasy
• history
• animation

Indonesian creatives and cultural specialists will work alongside Historyverse’s IP development team, using production tools Galleri5 built in India.

The first project under discussion is “Echoes of Nusantara,” a working title for an original mythology-adventure. Historyverse will run creative development, production and IP packaging. It will also collaborate with local talent to ready projects for possible financing, production and distribution outside Indonesia.

Vijay Subramaniam, founder and group CEO of Collective Artists Network, said:

“The next global entertainment franchises will not all come from Hollywood. Every market has stories that deserve to travel further, and Indonesia has an extraordinary wealth of them.”

“Our ambition with Collective Studios’ Historyverse is to work with Indonesian creators to develop these stories into films, series and larger entertainment properties for the world. Galleri5 gives us a new way to approach the scale of filmmaking, while the creative vision and the stories themselves remain at the center.”

What does this change for Indonesian creators?

The announced benefit is access to the company whose technology was used behind a launched Indian series, paired with Historyverse’s studio development and local partnerships. For Indonesian teams, the practical shift is a route from an original concept toward design, financing and distribution.

The announcement identifies no Indonesian project as commissioned or financed. “Echoes of Nusantara” remains a working title. It gives no budget, production schedule, casting, commissioning partner or distribution agreement.

It also leaves ownership, revenue sharing, AI training data and creator credit unspecified. Those terms will matter if locally rooted cultural material is to move beyond the partnership’s stated ambition.

The technology bet

G5 AI Studio brings together more than 200 AI models and purpose-built tools for:

• storyboarding
• designing characters and worlds
• animation
• VFX
• film-quality video

Galleri5 is also developing workflows for Historyverse’s theatrical slate, including “Chiranjeevi Hanuman – The Eternal” and “Krishna.” Galleri5 says the productions give it a base for refining the technology against real-world creative and production demands.

Rahul Regulapati, founder and CEO of Galleri5 and a partner at Collective Artists Network, said:

“The next generation of global cinema will be built on a very different technology foundation.”

“At Galleri5, we’re building that foundation with G5 AI Studio, bringing frontier AI models and filmmaking workflows into one platform. We’ve already demonstrated what this technology can do through films and television in India.”

“Now, together with Indonesia’s extraordinary creative talent and Collective’s studio capabilities, we have an opportunity to take locally rooted stories to audiences around the world.”

The institutional wager

Singhasari will introduce the venture to Indonesian creators, studios, investors, distributors and creative-economy institutions. The zone will also help set up local partnerships and routes to market.

Airlangga Hartarto, Indonesia’s coordinating minister for economic affairs and chairman of the National Council for Special Economic Zones, said the country did not plan to remain on the sidelines of AI development or act only as a consumer.

“We intend to help shape it. Special Economic Zones allow us to turn that ambition into real productivity, skilled jobs for our young people and new sources of growth on the path to 8 percent,” he said.

The policy claim still lacks a funding commitment, an incentive schedule or a deadline for the 8 percent goal. Singhasari’s stated role is introductions, partnership-building and market access rather than a confirmed production contract.

KRAT David Santoso KR, CEO of Lokanima and Singhasari Special Economic Zone, said the Kingdom of Singhasari had flourished eight centuries ago on the land the zone now occupies. He described it as a hub for engineering, the arts, scholarship and government, enriched by hundreds of years of contact with India.

“Today, with our partners from India, we are bringing that history back to life, this time by mastering the AI transformation. Our aim is to build new competitiveness for Indonesia in the new-technology and digital-content subsectors, with Indonesian talent and IP at its heart,” he said.

India’s ambassador to Indonesia, Sandeep Chakravorty, said the Ramayana and the Mahabharata had formed part of Indonesian temple culture, wayang (traditional puppet theater) and the popular imagination for more than a millennium.

“Today, India and Indonesia are writing the next chapter of that shared story with artificial intelligence,” he said.

The pact gives Indonesian creators tools, studio capacity and a route toward finance and distribution, but its first real test is whether “Echoes of Nusantara” can move from a working title to financing, production and distribution outside Indonesia.