Announcement
Induce AI announced on 2 September 2026 that it has opened a public beta of Rhapsody 1.0, a cinema‑reasoning and verification engine designed to evaluate story logic in AI‑generated filmmaking. The release was issued jointly from San Francisco and Bengaluru.
Technology Overview
Rhapsody 1.0 is built on a family of vision models that Induce AI trains on film‑domain data, rather than relying on a general‑purpose large language model to infer cinematic craft. On the ShotBench academic benchmark for cinematic understanding, the strongest general‑purpose model tested scored below 60 %. The engine maintains a running record of the story’s established cause‑effect relationships, character knowledge, and plot continuity, allowing it to evaluate each new shot against prior context. When a shot fails the logical check, the system returns a diagnostic instead of passing the output downstream to an editor. The engine is model‑agnostic, orchestrating generation across open‑source models such as Veo, Kling, and Seedance; approved shots feed back into the system, compounding style adherence across projects.
> “Nobody's AI film problem is quality anymore. The problem is that nothing in shot three has consequences in shot fourteen, and the model has no idea it got it wrong. Every generator on the market is a slot machine with beautiful output. We're building the part that holds a story together.” – Mahesh KMB, Co‑founder & CEO, Induce AI
Beta Launch Details
The public beta expands a previously closed pilot that involved filmmakers, studios, and enterprise teams. Induce AI reports that more than 200 creators and agencies have been onboarded within the first 60 days. Production work to date includes a high‑budget Tollywood feature and a set of Bollywood features. The beta platform is accessible at https://studio.inducelabs.ai/. Initial onboarding focuses on studios and enterprise teams located in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai.
Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the beta starts at $50 per month for individual users and $200 per month for professional users. Studio‑level and enterprise agreements, which include API access billed per verified shot, are priced on request.
Company Background
Induce AI was founded by Mahesh KMB and Ritwik Reddy. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with its engineering and production team based in Bengaluru. The five‑person team draws talent from IIT, BITS, Microsoft, Coinbase, Dailyhunt, and Josh. The firm describes itself as an AI media lab focused on building Rhapsody and training its own vision models to reason about film at a level beyond what general‑purpose LLMs can achieve.