RunwayCapability change· 2 days agoRunway launched a Team plan with shared projects, a pooled credit balance (6,900 credits per seat per month), up to 100 shared projects, Brand Kits, 1TB of storage, and collaboration features like…
Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview of a model that generates interactive worlds in real time with 720p video at 24 fps and audio at 48 kHz, responding to user inputs.
RunwayDeveloper tool· 4 days ago Runway launched Runway Dev MCP, a hosted MCP server that connects Runway Dev accounts to coding tools, enabling coding agents to plan, configure, and debug integrations.
Runway introduced Solaris, the first model in a new family of AI systems called Interface World Models.
Runway reports that its business has more than doubled this year and its net revenue retention has grown to over 300%, with enterprises across sectors adopting its platform.
Electronic Arts (EA) Chief Strategy Officer Mihir Vaidya discusses how video games historically trained AI and argues that the next frontier involves neuro-symbolic architectures that combine…
Block and Spotify legal leaders Chrysty Esperanza and Kevan Choset argue that blocking AI is riskier than enabling it, and that legal teams should embed themselves in product development, write…
Netflix's Senior Director of Creative Innovation Girish Balakrishnan and FutureCel founder Joel Kuwahara discussed the role of AI in filmmaking and animation at the 2026 Runway AI Festival,…
RunwayCapability change· 31 Jul Runway presented its Characters feature at SIGGRAPH 2026, where it was accepted into the Real-Time Live! session.
RunwayCapability change· 23 Jul Runway introduced Media Router, a new capability in Runway Dev that automatically selects the best video, image or audio model for each request based on user-defined preferences for cost, quality and…
Runway launched Runway Dev, an AI media platform for professional developers and enterprise teams. The platform provides access to Runway's frontier models along with third-party models, a model…
Runway published a longitudinal study of its impact on enterprise customers, finding that production costs typically fall by two to three orders of magnitude and timelines collapse.
Runway launched Runway Agent 2.0, an agentic video creation tool that helps users turn a single idea into finished creative work.
Runway open-sourced AVTensor, a Rust media decoder that demuxes both audio and video streams in a single pass to ensure synchronization, improving training MFU by 1.8 percentage points.
RunwayAvailability change· 6 Jul Runway opened its first office in France, a research hub in Paris with an initial team of ten employees, and is investing $30M in the region.
Runway built a capacity controller called deckard that reallocates GPUs between production inference and research based on daily demand cycles, using queueing theory to optimize allocations so that…
Runway announces a creative partnership with Bertelsmann, integrating Runway's AI models across Bertelsmann's global portfolio of businesses including RTL Group, BMG, and Bertelsmann Marketing…
Runway announced an enterprise partnership with MIXI, a Japanese technology and entertainment company.
RunwayCapability change· 25 Jun Runway introduced Agent 2.0, an upgraded version of its Runway Agent experience for marketers to create, test, and improve marketing campaigns. The new agent is available to all users.
RunwayAvailability change· 22 Jun Runway made Aleph 2.0, an in-context video editing model, available in Figma Weave. The model edits specific parts of footage by extracting a frame, restyling it, and connecting it back with a…
Lionsgate has taken an equity interest in Runway, and the two companies will launch a joint development program to develop and produce new IP, beginning with a short-form episodic series.
Runway announced the opening of a London headquarters and a research hub focused on general world models.
Runway announced it is joining the Cosmos Coalition as a founding member, working alongside NVIDIA and other leading AI labs to advance open world models.
Runway launched Runway MCP, an MCP server that connects Runway to agents and coding tools, enabling users to generate images and videos directly from their agent without switching context.
A harrowing story of loss set at sea as two young boys confront impossible conditions and constant danger is presented.
Runway launched Aleph 2.0, an upgrade to its video editing model, along with Edit Studio, a new product experience.
Runway published a technical post explaining the challenges of distributed training with DTensor, including gradient correctness issues that arise when sharding tensors across process groups.
RunwayAvailability change· 14 May Runway announced its expansion into Japan, opening a Tokyo office as its Japan headquarters, committing an initial $40 million, and hiring a Head of Japan.
Runway introduced Runway Agent, an agentic creative partner that generates finished videos from a single conversation.
Runway announced Runway Characters, a real-time video generation product built on GWM-1 that produces expressive conversational characters from a single reference image.
Runway published confingy, an open source library for configuring Python-based ML systems. The post discusses the pitfalls of YAML configuration and introduces confingy as a solution.
Runway described its child safety approach across model development, deployment, and maintenance, including training data safeguards, red teaming, usage policy prohibiting CSAM, detection systems,…
Runway announced Runway Characters, a real-time video agent that transforms a single reference image into a conversational video character at 24fps with low latency.
Runway built a system called NCCLBack that reduces model cold-start times from minutes to seconds by broadcasting weights between GPUs instead of downloading them from storage.
Runway describes how it increased GPU utilization by over 20 percentage points using Kueue as a Kubernetes admission controller, implementing reserved queues for guaranteed capacity and a shared…
Runway deepened its collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts, providing access to its full suite of AI tools to students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Interactive Media…
Runway launched Runway Builders, a program providing Seed to Series C startups with free API credits and early access to Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API powered by GWM-1.
Runway launched Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API for building custom conversational characters from a single image. The API is built on the company's World Model, GWM-1.
Runway announced Runway Labs, an internal incubator to explore new applications for generative video and General World Models, led by co-founder Alejandro Matamala Ortiz.
Runway launched Characters, a real-time video agent API for building custom conversational avatars from a single image with no fine-tuning, using the company's GWM-1 model.
Runway tested GWM-Robotics, a world model for robot policy evaluation, across eight manipulation policies and found a 0.95 correlation between simulated and real-world scores.
Runway announced that co-founder Anastasis Germanidis is now co-CEO alongside Cristóbal Valenzuela, and Kamil Sindi, Michelle Kwon, Anna Chalon, and Jamie Umpherson have taken on new roles as CTO,…
Runway announced $315 million in Series E funding, led by General Atlantic with participation from NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, AllianceBernstein, AMD Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company,…
Runway published a research study demonstrating that over 90% of participants could not reliably distinguish videos generated by its Gen-4.5 model from real video.
Runway demonstrated its Gen-4.5 video generation model and GWM-1 world model on the NVIDIA Rubin platform, porting Gen-4.5 from Hopper to Vera Rubin NVL72 in a single day.
Runway announced GWM-1, its first general world model family built on Gen-4.5. The model generates frames autoregressively in real time and can be controlled interactively with actions.
Runway presents A2D-VL 7B, a diffusion vision language model adapted from the pretrained autoregressive VLM Qwen2.5-VL for parallel diffusion decoding.
Runway released the beta of Runway Game Worlds, an AI-powered platform for non-linear narrative experiences that generates personalized stories, characters, and media in real time.
Runway and IMAX have partnered to screen the finalist films from the 2025 AI Film Festival exclusively in IMAX at 10 select locations across the United States.