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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
This post likely reflects on the historical costs of traditional media production and distribution, possibly comparing past spending on storytelling (such as television or film production) to modern,
I prefer to think is over but also is a new beginning. It’s over for digital animation. This is too good. Guilds and unions will try to void it in Hollywood but it’s over, amazing full length films wi
Love. The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your story! Made in @runwayml in a few hours and a han
This post directs users to purchase tickets for an event through aiff.com, shared by Cristobal Valenzuela on X (formerly Twitter). The link likely leads to ticket purchasing for the AIFF (possibly an
The only thing you need is a good story and @runwayml The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your s
Tickets are now available for the 4th annual AI Film Festival: June 11 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC, and June 18 at The Broad Stage in LA. It’s the biggest and most important celebrati
Time to accelerate. The inflection point is here. Runway added more than $40M in net new ARR so far this quarter, and we're less than halfway through. The biggest growth period in the history of the c
Just this week we had two community-led Runway meetups. One in Lisbon, Portugal and another one in Kathmandu, Nepal. With Sao Paulo, Brazil coming tomorrow and Kanpur, India on Sunday. 100p self organ
This post likely references a steampunk-themed show or performance that the author, Cristobal Valenzuela, has been anticipating or recently experienced. Without access to the full post content, the sp
We have arrived. We are judging things based on the merit of the artist, not the technology used. You never watch a movie because how it was made or the budget it had. you watch movies because the sto
Every month for the last 6 years, I’ve gotten a 0.50 charge to my debit card from AWS for an account I don’t use or remember how to access. I have no idea why. I am willing to pay 0.6
It's time to build NYC's physical AI community. We're hosting a small dinner in NYC for engineers and people building across robotics, autonomous systems, and world models. It's a pretty unique and sp
Our team cares. A lot. Appreciation post for @runwayml. In their Creative Partner Program. Not paid to post. Genuine respect for what they hand creators every month: → Solid monthly credit allotment →
We cut model cold-start times from minutes to seconds. 60x faster, saving thousands of GPU-minutes and hundreds of terabytes of transfers every day. It turns out GPUs already holding weights are faste
We're hosting our yearly Runway Friends Dinner at CVPR this year. DM if you'll be around. Hope to catch as many mutuals as possible. Join the Runway team in Denver on June 4th at our annual CVPR Frien
I think I can say Runway is among the platforms with the most user-friendly interface and navigation. Pretty sure I can say that, it's my opinion. But, Runway interface and combined models really do e
If you have two minutes to watch something today, watch this Sincitium is finally here. We are pleased to present our latest piece: a concept trailer created specifically for the @runwayml Big Pitch C
Real-time video agents are here. Today, we’re sharing how we built Runway Characters, allowing you to turn one image into a fully expressive, conversational video agent streaming at 24 frames per seco
We all contain universes. And now, we live in a time when you can explore all those universes and realities. It used to take a miracle to bring an idea to life. Now all it needs is your point of view.
When a software company actually uses its own software, all of their users benefit. @runwayml is exactly this type of company. They obviously take great care in the entire workflow that users desire.
Imagine deciding that the best way to judge art and human expression isn’t by the quality of the work, the strength of the vision, or the intent of the artist, but by some arbitrary, made-up rulebook
I had a really fun chat with Alex about Runway, media, world models, and some of what’s next for us. New: When Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela saw Sora for the first time, he thought: finally, some real co
This post references Sturgeon's Law, a principle stating that the majority of output in any field is of poor quality, while discussing statistical observations about content across a broad category. T
Runway has released an Android version of its application, making its AI video generation and editing tools available to Android users. This announcement represents an expansion of Runway's platform a
The Academy has reached their Monkey selfie moment The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting
Actual feedback we’ve gotten over the last few years: 2019: The what? For what? Why spend time on this? Maybe you should try doing something else. 2020: Why would you keep spending time on this? Will
Can AI dance and choreograph? Yes. Yes, it can. I had a song stuck in my head last morning, and before noon, I managed to get it out by making this music video. From idea to execution, it was created
We have a slack channel at Runway called #generations that’s quickly becoming my default streaming service. Every day, videos like this get posted. It’s a mix of technical amazement, seeing what new u
This post discusses the importance of understanding character identification and lore as part of employee onboarding at Runway, likely referencing key figures or mascots associated with the company's
This post from Cristobal Valenzuela, a notable AI researcher and co-founder of Runway ML, uses the colloquial phrase 'He is a goat' (an acronym meaning 'Greatest Of All Time') to express acclaim for s
Incredible. What a great reminder that is really hard to predict the unpredictable. New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud: Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing ta
This resource explains techniques for creating videos with consistent characters and voices in Runway, likely covering the use of reference materials, character sheets, and specific prompting strategi
Made by a single person in 4 days. If you think about how something like this would have been made 10 years ago (or even like, 1 year ago) 250K Runway credits and 4 days of time is the equivalent of a
You can look at the history of media through the cost of producing a credible frame. I call this the cost of a frame. Not a good story. Not a good movie. Not a meaningful work of art. Just the frame i
The Paris Salon was arguably the greatest art event in the Western world. In 1863 they rejected 2/3 of submissions, including works by Manet, Pissarro, and Courbet because they violated traditional ar
There's still time to submit. The applications coming in are pretty good, the bar is high. Two weeks to pitch a show you wish existed. $100K in cash prizes. Bring your biggest, most ambitious ideas to
Runway ML announced the fourth annual AI Festival and introduced its panel of jurors for evaluating submissions. The submission deadline was set for Monday, April 27, with creators encouraged to enter
Probably the most useful advice I can give you if you run an ad agency, a marketing company, a production studio, or anything in that space. Hear me out. I’ve spent a decade talking to teams about thi