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Studios are no longer competing with other studios. They are competing with billions of people who have access to powerful tools and YouTube level distribution. You don’t win by signing the one direct
Today we’re announcing London as Runway’s European HQ, and doubling down on our investment in the UK AI ecosystem. In under two years, our London team has become central to our research, including fou
In a way, the biggest realization AI is giving us is that we thought there was a clear line between what humans do and what the rest of physics does. AI is forcing us to confront the possibility that
These judgments are a solid example of cultural essentialism. iow, the belief that there is a fixed essence of 'real cinema' or 'true art' Every generation internalizes the standards of its artistic c
The creative team behind Salomon’s latest global brand campaign shared how they’re using Runway to explore new visual territories and uncover fresh creative directions. Today, they’re also collaborati
These judgments are a solid example of cultural essentialism. iow, the belief that there is a fixed essence of 'real cinema' or 'true art' Every generation internalizes the standards of its artistic c
Aleph 2.0 Introducing Runway Aleph 2.0. Edit videos using AI, keeping camera and motion all consistent. Select specific frames in your video to reprompt with GPT Images 2.0 or Nano Banana 2, then appl
I had the experience of playing against Sony AI’s “Project Ace,” the most advanced high-speed autonomous table tennis robot system, which has defeated elite human athletes. I managed to win a point. F
Cristobal Valenzuela announced a deadline for RSVPs to the annual CVPR Friends Dinner scheduled for June 4th in Denver, featuring conversation, cocktails, and food. Interested attendees were directed
We have crossed the uncanny valley. We have arrived Last Night. A fully AI-generated short film exploring a life-changing evening in Tokyo through the lens of fractured memories. Created with Runway i
I’m a big proponent of doing the complete opposite. If you extrapolate current adoption and progress, you quickly realize we’re heading toward a future where almost all video is AI-generated. In that
Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder of Runway ML, attended a community meetup event in Tokyo where he connected with members of the Runway ML user community and heard personal stories about how users are
Runway's CEO is visiting Japan this week, with a scheduled speaking event for which registration is now open. The announcement expresses gratitude to the Runway ML team and Cristobal Valenzuela's team
Introducing Runway MCP. Now you can connect Runway directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit and more. Generate polished images and videos with state-of-the-art models, like Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0,
Really excited to share the stage and chat with Ron Howard at this year’s AIF. You won’t want to miss it. Join us in New York for a pre-show conversation with special guest, Ron Howard. Followed by ou
We have crossed the uncanny valley of AI video. Introducing Project Luxo: a new initiative exploring how AI-generated video has crossed the uncanny valley. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared a seri
Please spend 15 minutes watching these films. They will radically change your sense of timelines and your understanding of what is now possible. We have shown these films in private pre screenings to
The Rogue. A film I’ve been trying to make for more than ten years. This project pushed me creatively more than anything I’ve ever done. and I truly believe this is going to become a pivot moment for
We built Aleph as one of the first generalist text-based editing models. Aleph 2.0 takes it further: visual prompting for precise control, longer videos (up to 30 seconds), and yes, multi-shot support
Aleph 2.0 will blow your mind Just tested Runway Aleph 2.0 and this blew my mind a bit lol I saw a video like this when Aleph first released and with the new Aleph 2.0 I wanted to create my own versio
The reality you and probably everyone else have to accept by now is this: you’ve almost certainly watched at least a few fully AI generated videos on social media without realizing they were generated
Here’s another pretty wild story from one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies on the impact of adopting Runway: They now generate 75% of all visual media with AI, replicating projects that pre
昨日のトークでもお話ししましたが2018年にRunwayのベータ版に参加していました。当時はAI/機械学習アートも今に比べるとまだかなりニッチでしたが、まさかRunwayがここまで大きくなって日本に進出するとは！ Thanks @c_valenzuelab @runwayml ,and everyone who came to @FILTOKYOX . Really fun night yeste
Runway ML released Aleph 2.0, an updated version of their AI video generation tool featuring expanded capabilities including unlimited control options, the ability to generate multiple shots within a
Cristobal Valenzuela shared reflections on a social gathering in Tokyo involving collaborators Daito Manabe and Rhizomatiks, highlighting the creative energy and community aspects of Tokyo's runway an
Yesterday we released Aleph 2.0, our upgraded video editing model that lets you change exactly what you want while keeping everything else the same. Available inside our new Edit Studio, you can work
Aleph 1.0 redefined so many new ways of editing and making videos. Really excited for Aleph 2.0 to set a new standard for the category. Aleph 2.0 is here. Now you can edit a single frame in your video
This post likely discusses strategies for creating or embodying cultural relevance and capturing the spirit of the times, possibly in the context of technology, AI, or creative work. The author, Crist
Japan’s AI adoption growth is remarkable. In just a few days here, you can already see how different the perceptions around adoption and use cases are. Also, I love seeing books about Runway. Country-
Not so fast Google Omni - @runwayml is back in the game with Aleph 2.0. Make changes and edits to videos (up to 30s) via prompts, references or restyle a frame with your favourite image editor (NB Pro
Today, we're incredibly excited to release the new Edit Studio inside Runway. Edit Studio is a brand-new way to create, edit, and ship your content with Runway. We're equally thrilled to release the l
It's time Tickets are still available for the Runway AI Festival in New York on June 11 and Los Angeles on June 18. Join us in celebrating the very best work being made with AI across film, design, ne
One of our enterprise customers, a large insurance company, told us they achieved a 99% reduction in reshoot costs using Runway (7 in Runway credits vs. 10K+ for a typical reshoot). They needed to cha
For context, this is what an IMAX camera and an IMAX projector look like. I love how, at some point, we began to see all magnificent machines as such natural extensions of ourselves that they feel hum
Distributed training is hard. We adopted DTensor at Runway to prevent silent gradient bugs and it delivered. But we traded performance for correctness, hitting dispatch overhead, recompilation storms,
Runway community meetup in Tokyo next week! Join us! Announcing the Runway Meetup in Tokyo: CEO Edition. We are excited to have @c_valenzuelab for this event. Please be sure to register from below, as
Runway Tokyo Gathering 2026 May 21 / FIL, Ebisu, Tokyo AI filmmaking, Physical AI, realtime culture, and Tokyo’s creative scene. @c_valenzuelab x.@daitomanabe Limited capacity. Apply: https://filtokyo
Mark Twain says if you use a typewriter to write your stories or novels, then you “shouldn’t be a writer”: “Every time I see some young fella saying, ‘Literature is finished,’ what follows is the most
The 2024 AI Film Festival poster serves as a significant cultural reference point for documenting and reflecting on AI progress, according to AI researcher Cristobal Valenzuela. The poster likely show
Cristobal Valenzuela, a prominent figure in AI development (co-founder of Runway), shared an image on X intended to be tattooed as a personal reminder of his professional mission or values in AI work.
This quote describes how linguistic or cultural innovations typically evolve through stages—beginning as incorrect usage, gaining stylistic adoption, becoming formalized as legitimate language, and fi
EXCLUSIVE: Runway is one of the most interesting inflection point stories in AI right now. Started as a tool for filmmakers. Now going after world models/ universe simulation, and by extension, everyt
Runway Meetup Tokyo! Join us ❇️Announcing the Runway Meetup in Tokyo: CEO Edition. We are excited to have @c_valenzuelab for this event. Please be sure to register from below, as space is limited! Co-
We are hosting an exclusive gathering in Tokyo on May 21 with our friends at @rhizomatiks and @filtokyox. I’ll be sharing the stage with @daitomanabe. Apply for access here: https://filtokyo.com/runwa
Congrats to the finalists! Can't wait for everyone to see them. Introducing our ten film finalists for Runway's fourth annual international AI Festival. Join us in New York on June 11th or LA on June
Excited to finally get our agent live for the world. A lot of what we’ve learned over time has been condensed and built into the agent so it can do the best work for you. Meet Runway Agent. Your new A
In 1859, Charles Baudelaire, perhaps one of the greatest artist of his time, said that photography was “art’s most mortal enemy,” arguing that it was a mechanical, soulless tool that should be restric
Runway is growing globally. We are now officially expanding to Japan. Our community in Japan is growing incredibly fast. It's our third-largest market among both enterprise and self-serve customers, a
Claude Monet is characterized as a prolific painter of his era whose work significantly influenced and transformed the broader art movement, despite the informal language used to describe his artistic
The best stories are yet to be told Soon some kid you’ve never heard of, without the financial means or nepo-baby connection will make a movie using new technology that will rock the world and change
This has been studied for years. It is called the effort heuristic, and it is a form of cognitive dissonance. AI is just 100xing it. In 2004, a study showed that participants consistently rated identi
Today we're announcing Runway's expansion into Japan: we're opening a Tokyo office and investing an initial $40M in the country, as we build on what is already one of our largest and fastest-growing m
buckle up because cinema is leaping ahead. I just finished watching a number of truly excellent short AI films in the @runwayml AI film festival, and I am honestly blown away by the level of quality.
Don’t be part of a medium. Create a new one. Don’t join a festival. Invent your own. Don’t just become the camera of the next generation. Become its grammar. Don’t wait for a category. Become the reas
Meet Runway Agent. Your new AI creative partner that helps you ideate and execute fully finished, sound designed and edited videos. All with just a simple conversation. From ads to shorts to content f
Congrats to all the winners of the Shows That Don't Exist Yet but Might Exist Very Soon Because This Proves The Point You Can Just Make Anything You Ever Dream Of With Runway And Somehow It Already Lo
Runway ML announced the winners of its inaugural Big Pitch Contest, a competition for television show concepts that have not yet been produced, with twenty total winners selected. The announcement hig
This was posted exactly 3 years ago. What 3 years of progress look like is wild. Can't wait for the next 3 years. guess who has access to runway #gen2 now? 👀 first quick trial for animated #aicinema,
AI existential crisis for software engineers is to go live in the woods and read poetry. AI existential crisis for creatives is to make things until 4am every day because you can't stop now. is this w
Every ML codebase seems to follow the same arc: hardcoded script → CLI flags → YAML config → YAML-as-a-programming-language nightmare. We replaced thousands of lines of inherited YAML with type-checke