BodaData's Steve Gao Speaks at the 15th Beijing International Film Festival: Empowering Creative Imagination Through Computational Infrastructure
Beijing, China — At the 15th Beijing International Film Festival, where technology, film, art, education, and industry converged, Steve Gao, Vice President of BodaData, delivered forward-looking insights into how AI computing infrastructure is reshaping content production, creativity, and immersive entertainment.
Speaking at the “Immersion Without Borders” forum, Steve joined industry experts to discuss “Computational Power and Content Production: A Full-Chain Transformation from Creation to Consumption”, exploring how intelligent computing is becoming the backbone of the modern film industry.
Reconstructing the Creative Chain: From Compute-Driven Empowerment to Artistic Leap
As China accelerates its digital economy and implements the “East-to-West Computing Resource Transfer” strategy, the integration of culture and technology is becoming a national priority. High-performance and AI computing are dismantling the traditional barriers of film production—revolutionizing tools, workflows, and creative possibilities.
“Foundation models are the driving force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” said Steve. “They are systematically reshaping the entire film ecosystem—from early-stage ideation and production to immersive user experiences.”
Steve outlined how AI tools, enabled by powerful computing backbones, are streamlining the creative process: Large language models assist scriptwriting through semantic analysis and plot logic refinement; Text-to-image/video generation enables the rapid transformation of concepts into virtual assets; Real-time rendering systems, powered by low-latency GPU clusters, now support 3D virtual cinematography in ultra-high definition—marking a shift from linear to interactive digital filmmaking.
Reshaping the Industrial Chain: Compute Density as the New Foundation
With the rise of 4K/8K video, virtual production, and motion capture, film production is facing exponential data growth. A single film can generate petabyte-scale data across shooting, editing, and post-production. This places extreme demands on storage, synchronization, transmission, processing, cost, and security.
Steve emphasized: “When computational power becomes a new form of productive capital, it catalyzes a generation of disruptive tools.” Examples include: Industry-specific knowledge bases for smart content retrieval; AI agents to support script evaluation and scene design; Automated workflows linking editing, CGI, and post-production.
Looking ahead, studios may train customized vertical large models on their own data, optimizing content creation, marketing, and distribution. This would unlock large-scale adoption of multi-modal video generation, revolutionizing the film production paradigm.
Building a Compute-Empowered Industry Ecosystem
To meet the industry’s growing needs, BodaData initiated the AI Foundation Model Compute Alliance, which brings together partners to focus on: Digital asset (RWA) certification using blockchain; Domain-specific AI models for screenwriting, virtual character generation, and more.
The alliance offers full-stack services—from data cleansing and annotation to model training and deployment—helping film companies transform raw content into valuable AI assets.
As a leader in converged computing infrastructure, BodaData goes beyond storage to deliver end-to-end data lifecycle solutions across collection, processing, security, and application. These solutions unlock the potential of data assets and provide scalable, intelligent infrastructure for the film industry’s digital transformation.
Bridging Real-Time Tech from Gaming to Cinema
Steve further explained how BodaData is adapting technologies from esports—including real-time rendering, distributed computing, and ultra-low-latency networks—for film production. In collaboration with top studios, academic institutions, and tech partners, BodaData has built a comprehensive technical framework that supports: AI-generated scripts powered by LLMs; Multi-end virtual filming systems; Fully encrypted, real-time data flows.
This holistic solution paves the way for the localization of “Hollywood-style” virtual production in China—powered not only by talent and tools, but also by a stable, scalable compute infrastructure.
Through its in-house compute scheduling platform, tailored resource packages, and localized operations teams, BodaData is building a compute ecosystem that fits the specific needs of China’s film sector. It also works with industry partners to enhance AI model training, data governance, and IP protection—laying a solid foundation for industrialized virtual filmmaking.
Powering the Future of Film with Scalable Compute
“Great films are always born at the intersection of creative inspiration and cutting-edge technology,” said Steve. “As a builder of intelligent compute infrastructure, we aim to remove technical barriers for creators—providing stable, efficient, and secure compute power, so they can focus on storytelling.”
Looking ahead, BodaData will deepen cooperation with studios, R&D partners, and academic teams—co-developing: Dedicated AI compute clusters for media; AI-assisted creative tools; Full-stack virtual production solutions.
By transforming advanced compute into real-world production capability, BodaData is committed to driving the high-quality development of China’s film industry.
