Runway

What Runway does

Runway is building foundational Real-World Intelligence that can understand, simulate and act in the world. They offer products and services built on this intelligence to empower individuals and organizations. Their long-term research effort is to build AI systems that understand the visual world and its dynamics, with the goal of creating General World Models capable of simulating all possible worlds and experiences. They believe world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence, essential for solving hard problems in robotics, disease, and scientific discovery by enabling models to experience the world and learn from mistakes through accelerated simulation.

Products

• Runway CreativeAn all-in-one cloud-based creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Built for individuals and teams of all sizes, it offers a complete creative suite.
• Runway DevAn AI media platform for developers to integrate the world's best models. It allows for creating pipelines combining multiple models, modalities, and tasks, and triggering workflows via custom endpoints.
• Runway RoboticsA complete toolkit for robot learning, enabling policy inference through photorealistic simulation. It powers policy inference, evaluation, and synthetic data generation using GWM-1.
• Runway AgentAn AI agent designed to create, analyze, and scale marketing efforts. It helps with campaign creation, performance analysis, and scaling winning ideas across formats and channels.
• GWM-1A state-of-the-art General World Model built to interact with the real world, representing a major step towards universal simulation. It is the core technology behind Runway Robotics.
• Gen-4.5The world's best video model, featuring state-of-the-art motion quality, prompt adherence, and visual fidelity.
• Gen-4A generative image model for text-to-image and reference-based image generation.
• Aleph 2.0 & Edit StudioA tool that allows editing a frame in a video and applying those edits to the rest of the video.
• Multi-Shot Video AppAn application that generates a multiple shots video from a simple prompt.
• Gen-4 TurboAn image-to-video generative model.
• Nano Banana ProA generative image model.
• AlephA tool that allows quickly swapping an object or replacing an environment from an existing video.
• Seedance 2.0A generative video model.
• Kling 3.0A generative video model.
• Nano Banana 2 LiteA generative image model.
• Seedream 5.0A generative model.
• Gemini OmniA generative model.
• Seedance 2.5A generative video model.
• HappyHorse 1.0A generative model.
• FLUX.2 [max]A generative model.
• Eleven v3A generative model.
• Runway MCPConnects Runway to agents like Claude and ChatGPT.
• Characters: Real-time Video AgentsReal-time AI video agents with natural conversation capabilities.
• Topaz AI UpscaleAn upscaling tool.
• Seedance 2.0 ProA generative video model.
• Seedance 2.0 FastA generative video model.
• Gen-4 Image TurboA generative image model.
• Nano Banana Pro 2A generative image model.
• Seed Audio 1.0A generative audio model.
• Lyria 3 ProA generative audio model for songs.
• Lyria 3 ClipA generative audio model for song clips.

Key capabilities

• Generative Video (Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Aleph, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Seedream 5.0, Gemini Omni, HappyHorse 1.0, FLUX.2 [max], Eleven v3)
• Generative Image (Gen-4, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2 Lite)
• Generative Audio (Text to Speech, Seed Audio 1.0, Lyria 3 Pro, Lyria 3 Clip)
• Video Editing (3 video editor projects)
• Image Apps
• Audio Apps
• 4K Upscaling
• No watermarks
• Create Custom Voices for Lip Sync and Text to Speech
• Credit roll over (for Max plan)
• First access to newest models
• Highest generation volume
• Single sign-on (Enterprise)
• Workspace Analytics (Enterprise)
• Configurable teamspaces (Enterprise)
• Enterprise-wide onboarding (Enterprise)
• Priority support (Enterprise)
• Custom team sizes (Enterprise)
• Connect Runway to agents (Claude, ChatGPT)
• Edit a frame in a video and apply to the rest (Aleph 2.0 & Edit Studio)
• Create end-to-end videos with simple conversations (Runway Agent)
• Real-time AI video agents with natural conversation (Characters)
• Generate videos from text, image, video, or audio
• Multi-Shot Video App
• Transform Video
• Mood Boards
• Virtual Staging
• Character Performance
• Virtual Try-On
• Design Explorations
• Storyboarding
• Animatics
• Generate Yourself
• Visual Effects
• Change lighting, restyle shots, add/remove elements from video
• Remove anything from any video with a simple prompt
• Reshoot Product (transform product shots without reshooting)
• Upscale Video
• Add Dialogue (to characters)
• Change Image Style
• Add Performance (map voice/expressions onto image/character)
• Change Backdrop (in video)
• Change Time of Day (in video)
• Relight Scene (in video)
• Custom node-based workflows
• Policy inference from camera observations (Robotics)
• Evaluate policies through photorealistic simulation (Robotics)
• Augment training data (Robotics)
• License GWM-1 as diffusion backbone for custom policy models (Robotics)
• Offline Policy Evaluation (Robotics)
• Data Augmentation (Robotics)
• Create entire marketing campaigns (Agent)
• Analyze campaign data (Agent)
• Scale winning marketing ideas (Agent)
• Nail marketing brief and positioning (Agent)
• Optimize low-performing creative (Agent)
• Generate fresh hooks and variations for testing (Agent)
• Build full launch campaigns (Agent)
• Format creative for every platform automatically (Agent)
• Localize winning creative for different markets (Agent)

Use cases

• Exploring Runway's AI Tools (Free plan)
• AI video creation (Standard, Pro, Max plans)
• Scaling AI video production (Enterprise)
• Creative workflow for image, video, audio, editing, and language models
• Generating any video, image, or piece of content
• Editing video frames and applying changes
• Creating end-to-end videos through conversation
• Generating videos from text, image, video, or audio inputs
• Transforming video elements (lighting, style, elements)
• Removing elements from video
• Reshooting product shots virtually
• Upscaling video resolution
• Adding dialogue to characters
• Changing image styles
• Mapping voice and expressions onto images/characters
• Changing video backdrops
• Adjusting time of day in video
• Relighting scenes in video
• Building custom workflows for content generation
• Social Media Content Creation (Instagram, TikTok)
• Product shots generation
• Packaging & Retail Visualization (planograms, shelf sets, store visualizations)
• Automotive Product Photography (dealer-ready images)
• UGC ads creation (for TikTok, Reels)
• Real estate listing photos to cinematic walkthroughs/aerials
• Home services job-site photos to before-and-after reveals/local video ads
• Product video ads creation
• Restaurant dish photos to food video/dining ambience
• Car dealership inventory photos to cinematic vehicle videos/ads
• Clinic & dental office tours, patient explainers, local ads
• Fitness studio photos to cinematic tours, class promos, member ads
• Fashion brand lookbook stills to editorial films/e-commerce video
• Beauty & skincare product photos to luxury commercials/campaign films
• Pet brand ads with consistent pet characters
• Wedding venue tours, styled-shoot films, photo keepsakes
• Beverage pours, splashes, lifestyle scenes from product photos
• Jewelry & watch macro sparkle, rotations, on-model motion from product photography
• Hotel & travel property photos to suite reveals/cinematic destination films
• Policy inference in robotics from camera observations
• Evaluating robotic policies through photorealistic simulation
• Augmenting robotic training data
• Training custom policy models for robots
• Creating marketing campaigns (Agent)
• Analyzing marketing campaign data (Agent)
• Scaling marketing winners (Agent)
• Nailing marketing briefs and positioning (Agent)
• Optimizing low-performing marketing creative (Agent)
• Experimenting with fresh marketing hooks and variations (Agent)
• Building full launch marketing campaigns (Agent)
• Formatting marketing creative for various platforms (Agent)
• Localizing winning marketing creative for different markets (Agent)
• Hybrid live-action and AI production for brand campaigns

AI approach

Runway is building foundational Real-World Intelligence through General World Models (GWM-1) that can understand, simulate, and act in the world. They offer products and services built on these models, including creative tools for video, image, and audio generation, an AI media platform for developers, and a robotics platform for policy inference and synthetic data generation. They emphasize their proprietary models like GWM-1 and Gen-4.5.

Tech named: GWM-1, Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5, Nano Banana Pro, Aleph, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Topaz AI Upscale, Aleph 2.0, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Seedream 5.0, Gemini Omni, Seedance 2.5, Claude Opus 4.8, HappyHorse 1.0, FLUX.2 [max], Eleven v3, Seedance 2.0 Pro, Seedance 2.0 Fast, Gen-4 Image, Gen-4 Image Turbo, Nano Banana Pro 2, Seed Audio 1.0, Lyria 3 Pro, Lyria 3 Clip

Industries served

• Advertising
• VFX
• Gaming
• Retail
• Automotive
• Real Estate
• Home Services
• Restaurants
• Healthcare
• Fitness
• Fashion
• Beauty & Skincare
• Pet Industry
• Weddings
• Beverages
• Jewelry & Watches
• Hospitality & Travel
• Robotics

What it says sets it apart

• Building foundational Real-World Intelligence and General World Models (GWM-1)
• Focus on simulating all possible worlds and experiences
• Comprehensive cloud-based creative platform (Runway Creative) for individuals and teams
• Developer-focused AI media platform (Runway Dev) for model integration and workflows
• Specialized toolkit for robot learning (Runway Robotics) leveraging GWM-1
• AI Agent for end-to-end marketing campaign creation, analysis, and scaling
• State-of-the-art video models (Gen-4.5) with high motion quality and visual fidelity
• Extensive collection of AI models for image, video, audio, editing, and language
• Ability to create custom node-based workflows chaining multiple models and modalities
• Offers tools for transforming, editing, and generating video, images, and audio with simple prompts
• SOC 2 Type II certification for security
• GDPR Readiness and CCPA/CPRA Controls
• Incorporates elements from ISO 27001 and NIST frameworks
• Pioneering general-purpose multimodal simulators
• Ability to quickly mock up ideas and visualize campaigns before production (as highlighted by Unveil)
• Platform for doing 'almost everything' in one place, jumping between models for different looks and use cases

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.