BUDOTS MEDIAAI

Sovereign AI

Over 180 languages are spoken in the Philippines, and almost none are meaningfully represented in frontier AI. Our priority is a sovereign Filipino language model and a multimodal generative model, trained on a decade of rights-cleared Cebuano and Tagalog media from our own productions.

“We spent ten years accidentally building the dataset. Now we are deliberately building the model.”Budots Media — A Sovereign Filipino Language Model

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Sovereign AI

A Filipino Language Model

Text for Cebuano and Tagalog first, then speech, image and video, all trained on our own archive.

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Production 2.0

AI Agents in the Edit Bay

A rough cut that took an editor two days now takes an agent pipeline twenty minutes. A human still directs the final creative pass.

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Datasets

Multimodal Drone Data

Photogrammetry, orthomosaics and 3D scans of real places, captured rather than generated.

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BUDOTS AI

Open-Source Video Generation

Open-source video generation under the BUDOTS AI name. Read the announcement.

Kalanggaman

One island, told four ways: a guide, reels, flyovers, and now a world you can walk.

Kalanggaman Island (Palompon, Leyte) runs through our work. There's Kalanggaman.com, the island guide we own under the Philippines Tourism Company, reels on the Kalanggaman Island Tours page, and AI flyovers.

In September 2026 it became a place you can visit from any browser. The islet, the wood, the beach and sandbar, the reef, the jetty and the cottages all come from OpenStreetMap. It runs on the engine of our fishing game Isda: raw WebGPU, an FFT ocean with shore waves and caustics, sky and clouds. You walk, swim and drive a bangka around it.

WebGPUOpenStreetMapFFT oceanIsda engineCloudflare

Play Kalanggaman ↗ Kalanggaman.com

The sandbar — white sand into turquoise shallows, at a sunny midday The floating jetty, on its OpenStreetMap line 0:05 AI flyover — Luma Dream Machine

Kalanggaman.com — the island guide, built in Bolt and updated every season

1. The island in your browserWebGPU, OpenStreetMap, a bangka to drive. budotsmedia.com/philippines/kalanggaman ↗
2. The guideThe island's own website, under the Philippines Tourism Company. kalanggaman.com ↗
3. The reelsIsland stories on Facebook, like the one beside this list. Kalanggaman Island Tours ↗
4. The flyoversAI video and a low-poly Blender promo of the island, made with Claude.

Playable Philippines

A video ad now costs nothing to make and earns nothing to watch. A game earns attention, trust and data. So we make the Philippines playable: a barangay you can fish from, an island you can walk, a battle you can fight.

Free in your browser · computer & phone

Isda

Isda is Filipino for fish. It's an island fishing game set in a Philippine barangay: take a bangka out, fish the reef, sell your catch to Joe at the Mercado and dance budots at the fiesta. It runs on WebGPU and is built on the open-source Tidewater engine.

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Unreal Engine 5 · computer & mobile

LapuLapu – The Game

An action game of the Battle of Mactan, 27 April 1521, made in Lapu-Lapu City.

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Game concept

Jollibee Go-Kart

A brand mascot racing through a toy-sized Cebu City.

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Interactive · DOT palette

LOVE Blocks

The LOVE the Philippines tiles as 3D plastic blocks. Scroll and tap.

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Gen AI Lab

This is where we run one-shot experiments and side-by-side technology evaluations. It's how Budots Media picks its tools before they touch client work.

2D Image Lab

Hugging Face Spaces · FLUX.2 Klein 9B · Krea 2 Turbo · Qwen-Image-Edit · 2D → 3D

One subject, a freediver, pushed through LoRA stacking, identity-preserving instruction edits and multi-image compositing. We also reconstructed flat imagery into depth.

FLUX.2-Klein-9B multi-LoRA img2img — freediver rebuilt from a 640px base frame Krea 2 Turbo identity-preserving edit — “change swimsuit to black color” Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Rapid — two-image compositing, 4-step inference 2D → 3D — the Burj Al Arab reconstructed in depth from a flat source

Evals

We hand the same brief to competing models at once and judge the results side by side. The point isn't picking a favourite model. It's knowing which tool wins which job.

Arena Battles

Arena battle mode · Kimi K3 · GPT-5.5 / 5.6 Sol · Claude Fable 5

Freediving parallax sites where the sea colour shifts with scroll depth, LOVE-PH palette square animations, and a production-house landing page, all one-shotted head to head.

Freediving parallax site, sea colours shifting with scroll depth — A/B in Arena LOVE-PH palette site with animated square parallax — Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.5 WE SHOOT honest STORIES — production-house landing, GPT-5.6 Sol vs Kimi K3

Image-to-Video Duel

Wan 2.6 i2v vs Hailuo 2.3 · one SUP source frame

Two engines start from an identical frame. We judge them on water physics, board wobble and how the paddler survives the waterline.

Wan 2.6 i2v vs Hailuo 2.3 — identical SUP start frame The same duel at the waterline — judging water physics frame by frame

Love the Philippines — Identity Reconstruction

Claude Design · Sonnet 5 · official DOT brand guide

We rebuilt the Department of Tourism identity from its brand guide: the logo as SVG, the official colour codes and the 27-tile iconography.

Rebuilding the logo SVG in Claude Design — Sonnet 5 session Official DOT brand-guide colours Brand-guide study — the 27-tile iconography in order

Built with AI

This is where the lab pays off: tools and experiences people use, not only watch. Each one started as an AI evaluation and became something interactive.

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Gen AI eval · Nov – Dec 2025

Drone Show Planner

Can AI build professional drone-show software? This is our answer: a browser tool for designing and visualising drone light shows, with hundreds to thousands of drones animated as point clouds and collision avoidance built in.

It loads GLB, FBX and other 3D files, turns mesh vertices into drone positions, sorts the transitions between formations and exports a vendor-ready sequence. It's an open alternative to proprietary vendor tools.

Gemini 3AntigravityWebGLGLB / FBX

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Directory · Jun 2025 · Bolt

MICE PH Directory

The first directory of Philippine event spaces for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions. It has a venue finder, hotel listings, capacity data and live dashboards, and it was built from a dedicated market-research pass.

Planners use it to answer the real question (“where can 300 people meet in Cebu?”) instead of scrolling through brochures.

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Browser games · Jul 2026

Arena Games

A Cebu street-racing game past the CCLEX bridge, dodging jeepneys and stray dogs, one-shotted by Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol (the trophy went to Sol). There's also a tropical Monopoly-style board game built from a single reference image by Kimi K3 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Model Context Protocol

MCP

We've practised with MCP since the protocol launched. We drive Blender from Claude (the biggest impact so far, for complex 3D scene builds), Unreal Engine 5.8 through its native MCP plugin (by far the most token-hungry), and Adobe After Effects.

BlenderUnreal 5.8After Effects

Motion

Two years of AI video, from prompt board to published feed: Hunyuan reels in 2024, Luma Dream Machine flyovers, Gemini Veo libraries in late 2025 and, in December 2025, HunyuanWorld scenes of the Philippines you can walk through.

Explorable0:10 HunyuanWorld Philippines — a Battle of Mactan scene you walk with W-A-S-D Gemini Veo — cinematic frame, warrior in a ruined city 0:05 Luma Dream Machine — Kalanggaman island flyover Veo generation library — typhoon evacuations with Tagalog captions, banca fleets, a Bigfoot beach series Explorable0:16 HunyuanWorld Philippines — galleons offshore at dusk, a second explorable scene Hunyuan video, 2024 — Battle of Mactan reel frame 0:08 Luma — animated Cebu News logo sting Gemini 2.5 Flash image — dragon-boat title card, edited by conversation

All sites

Every site we've built and still run, from budotsmedia.com and its games to digital twins, maps and scroll stories. Designed by Budots Media and built with Bolt, Claude, Gemini, Kimi and GPT.

Budots Mediabudotsmedia.comDigital production, Cebu → worldwide. The company home. AI & 3Dbudotsmedia.com/aiWorld models, 3D generations, drone scans and Gaussian splats. Isdabudotsmedia.com/philippines/games/isdaIsland fishing game in a Philippine barangay. Kalanggaman Islandbudotsmedia.com/philippines/kalanggamanWalk the sandbar in your browser. Love the Philippineslove-philippines.comThe DOT mark, deconstructed: one mark, four colours, every island. CCLEX Digital Twinbudotsmedia-cclex-digital2.netlify.appThe Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway in 3D. Shangri-La Mactanshangrila-mactan-twin.netlify.appEvent spaces as a digital twin. NewsPH · Balitabudotsmedia.com/newsphNational news with OFW, tourism and business desks. Descentunderwater-philippines.netlify.appUnderwater parallax: the sea gets darker as you scroll. Budots Media Philippinesbudotsmediaph.github.ioFilm, flight & AI portfolio. Cebu Metro Transit Mapinteractive-isometri-90qc.bolt.hostJeepney routes and ferry services on one map. Gen AI Foliobudots-media.higgsfield.appThe full archive of experiments and evals. The First Defenderbudotsmedia.com/lapulapu-first-defenderA Lapu Lapu Story: the BisayaFlix film. Why gamesbudotsmedia.com/why-gamesWhy games win attention, trust and data now. Budots Media Travelpapaya-boba-e538a7.netlify.appExplore. Experience. Storytelling. bartsakwerda.combartsakwerda.comSelected projects: 3D, aerial surveys, Gaussian splats.