Cross-border AI lab · Venture builder

Where frontier AI meets the world’s stories.

BEDAIA is a cross-border AI lab and venture builder connecting Western research with China’s applied AI ecosystem. We develop culturally nuanced technologies and ventures for the future of storytelling, media, and entertainment.

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Auckland · Wuhan

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Thesis

The future of entertainment will be AI-native — but it cannot be culturally generic.

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AI is rapidly becoming part of every stage of entertainment — from development and production to distribution and community.

BEDAIA focuses on the layer that makes this technology more meaningful: cultural context, story logic, creative diversity, and scalable real-world applications.

Advantage

A lab built across cultures — not around a single market.

Cross-border intelligence

Connecting Western research depth with China’s high-velocity applied AI ecosystem.

Cultural nuance

Building technology and experiences that reflect local worlds, identities, languages, and storytelling traditions.

Venture creation

Turning research and creative insight into focused, high-impact ventures for new entertainment markets.

Ventures

What we explore and build.

We build and partner around ventures that move storytelling from passive consumption to more creative, participatory, and culturally relevant experiences.

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Storytelling and media tools

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Participatory worlds and next-generation IP

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Creative tools for younger generations

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AI-native content and production

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Research & recognition

Research with a purpose.

BEDAIA’s AI research focuses on the creative bottlenecks that limit meaningful AI-native entertainment: persistent character consistency, coherent visual storytelling, cultural adaptation, and age-aware creative experiences.

Together, this work supports a broader mission: turning frontier generative AI into reliable creative infrastructure for storytelling, media, and new entertainment ventures.

Award

CharCom

A character-consistency framework designed to help AI-generated characters remain recognisable and visually coherent across multiple scenes and narratives.

Best Multimedia Award, ACM Multimedia Asia 2025 — sponsored by YouTube

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Published research

S2ED

Advances story-to-image and storyboard generation by structuring stories into consistent scene descriptions — so characters, settings, actions, and emotional arcs remain coherent across a sequence.

IEEE ICME 2026

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Persistent character consistency

Coherent visual storytelling

Cultural adaptation

Age-aware experiences

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Contact

Build with us.

We work with media companies, IP owners, creative partners, researchers, and ambitious operators shaping the future of entertainment.

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Auckland · Wuhan