Runway

Runway is the most important applied AI company in the creative industry — the organization at the absolute forefront of generative video, multimodal AI research, and the development of tools that are fundamentally changing what it means to create moving images. Founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, and Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz as a creative tool company built on machine learning, Runway has evolved into one of the defining laboratories for generative media research, responsible for Gen-1, Gen-2, and Gen-3 Alpha — successive generations of text-to-video and video-to-video AI models that have consistently set new benchmarks for the quality, coherence, and cinematic fidelity of AI-generated video. Runway's product suite spans the full spectrum of AI-powered creative capabilities. The company's video generation models allow filmmakers, advertisers, content creators, and designers to produce high-quality video from text descriptions, reference images, or existing footage — capabilities that were, only a few years ago, the exclusive domain of production houses with tens of millions of dollars in equipment and skilled labor. Runway's video editing tools — including background removal, inpainting, motion tracking, and green screen elimination using only AI — put professional-grade post-production capabilities in the hands of any creator with a browser and an idea. The company's Research division has published work on video diffusion models, temporal consistency in generative video, and multimodal representation learning that has influenced the broader field of AI-generated media. Runway's creative platform serves an extraordinary breadth of use cases: Hollywood productions, advertising agencies, independent filmmakers, game studios, social media creators, and enterprise marketing teams have all adopted Runway's tools as a core component of their creative workflows. The company occupies a unique position as both a frontier AI research organization and a commercially successful creative software company — a combination that gives it the rare ability to translate cutting-edge research directly into products that professionals rely on every day. For any creative organization seeking to harness the power of generative AI for visual storytelling, Runway is the most capable and most creatively ambitious partner in the world.