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Use your AICU account. We send a six-digit code to your email — no password.
Before you sign in
- What can be entered
- Work published between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2026, at a URL anyone can open without logging in.
- Until when
- Rolling until 15 October 2026 (AoE).
- What it takes
- A free account, the URL of your work, and a few minutes. A review fee applies; an invitation code waives it.
AICU Award
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Home
What is coming up, and what is left for you to do.
Your entries
Start a new entry
One work per entry. The same work is judged in every field it belongs to.
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From the award's master schedule. Dates are Japan time unless noted.
New entry
Your work is saved on this device as you type. Images stay on our side once dropped.
Your entries
Everything you have entered, and where each one has got to.
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Award Supporter
USD $10. You are credited by name, and you receive a vote in the final round — one vote in each of the ten fields, cast with your comment and your critique attached.
This award is decided by the people who look at the work. Ten fields, and in each of them someone has to actually watch, read, listen, and then say why. That is what a Supporter does.
Thank you for supporting the award. You vote in the public round — all ten fields — and we are preparing a vote in the final round as well.
What you receive
- ✦ Credited by name as an Award Supporter — on the site, in the ceremony credits, and in the archive
- ✦ A vote in the final round, cast with your comment and your critique attached, on the finalists each field selected in the free first round
- ✦ One vote in each of the ten fields, for everyone. The amount you give never buys more votes.
- ☑ Agreement with the purpose of the award
- ☑ Agreement to the Code of Conduct
- ☑ Helping the award reach people
How it goes
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Sign in, and say what name to credit
Your real name, a handle, or nothing at all — you choose which of the three appears in the credits. Changing your mind later is a mail to award@aicu.ai.
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Agree, before you pay
Agreement with the purpose of the award, and agreement to the Code of Conduct. We ask first and take payment second, because the reason you hold a vote is that you agreed to these — not that you paid.
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USD $10, once
Paid to AICU Inc. through AICU Checkout. There is no subscription and nothing renews. Full refund within 14 days, as long as you have not yet cast a vote — the legal notice has the details.
If you need a Japanese invoice — consumption tax, a qualified invoice number — write to award@aicu.ai and we will bill in yen from AICU Japan instead. It costs a little more, because the exchange and the fees are in it.
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Vote in the final round, with your critique
The first round is free and open, and it selects three to ten finalists in each field. You vote on those finalists. A vote without a comment is not counted — what the creators receive is not the number, it is what you wrote.
Become an Award Supporter
Signing in and paying happen on award.aicu.ai — the application, kept separate from this site.
Your support
Your activity counts from the moment you agree — before any payment. The influencer evaluation starts here.
Your voice on the page
Your X handle and one line appear in the banner at the top of this page. We read it before it goes up, so it takes a little while. Editing it puts it back in the queue.
Logos and assets
Use them as they are: horizontal, on white, with clear space around the mark. High-resolution PNGs are for print.
- Horizontal lockup (SVG)
- Mark only (SVG)
- High-resolution PNG (4000px / 2000px, white and transparent)
Schedule
Dates are in Japan time unless marked AoE. This list is the same one the office works from.
| 2026-09-11 | Entries open — work certificates start issuing; the ten fields are announced in turn |
| 2026-09-24 | General submissions and certification requests (rolling until 15 October) |
| 2026-10-16 → 2026-10-26 | Preliminary review and nominee announcements (16–26 Oct); full-version & credits requested |
| 2026-10-26 | Public vote opens (one vote per field per person, 10,000-vote goal) |
| 2026-11-15 | Public vote closes (AoE) — may shift with the ceremony run-of-show |
| 2026-11-18 → 2026-11-20 | Award ceremony — Fri 20 Nov 15:50–16:50, INTER BEE IGNITION stage IG-205 (Makuhari Messe; show runs 18–20 Nov) |
| 2026-11-21 | PPV archive opens (separate from the event's own accounts) |
Already a Supporter? Your own supporter portal is here.
To talk to us, write to award@aicu.ai or come to Discord. Companies and organisations are on the partnership page.
Ask the office
Ask about entering, fees, dates or the rules. Signed in, it can also tell you where your own entries stand.
This is an automated assistant. It answers from the award's published information and your own entries, and it cannot decide anything — refunds, exceptions and rulings are made by the award office. You can pass the conversation to a person at any time.
Ask the award office
We pass this conversation to the award office staff, and they write to your account's email address. You do not have to explain again.
Timeline
What happens to an entry, and when.
The stages a work goes through
Dates
Entered works
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Partners
The organisations supporting the International AI Creator Award 2026. Thank you.
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Creator settings
How your name is shown. Entries already sent keep the name they were sent with.