Runway
Building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science
Runway is an AI research and product company focused on building General World Models capable of simulating reality. Their offerings include Gen-4.5 for cinematic video generation, GWM-1 for real-time interactive world simulation, and a Characters API for building conversational video agents with custom appearances. The platform is used by leading organizations across industries for AI-driven creative and scientific applications.
Runway's General World Models and video generation models (Gen-4.5, GWM-1) produce cinematic video, explorable environments, and conversational video agents from prompts or images via an API and web platform.
creative professionals, enterprise organizations, and AI researchers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Runway AI, Inc.
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