Runway Aleph
Runway's AI editing suite offering visual effects tools such as object removal, green screen, motion brush and style transfer.
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Runway Funding History
Runway is a US AI company that develops the Gen video generation models and visual effects tools offered on the Runway platform.
Company Overview
Founded 2018 · New York, New York
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Runway Founding Team
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-founder and CEO of Runway; previously co-founded Vocabulary with Sara Sperling.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05Alejandro Matamala Ortiz
Co-founder of Runway.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05Anastasis Germanidis
Co-founder of Runway.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Runway Products
Applications, APIs and Tools
Runway Characters
Runway product that animates a single photo into a real-time conversational video character using the GWM-1 world model.
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Runway
Generative AI platform for video and image creation and editing, including text-to-video models and visual effects tools.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
Models
GWM-1
Runway general world model family with variants for real-time environment simulation, digital-human conversation and robotics policy evaluation; basis for the Runway Characters API.
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Runway Act-Two
Runway performance-capture model that maps motion from a camera-captured performance video onto AI-generated characters in real time, without a motion-capture suit.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
Runway Gen
Runway's video model family led by Gen-4.5, with the GWM-1 general world model alongside, served via its web app and API.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-18
Recorded Versions · 2
Runway Gen-4.5
Runway video generation model version for text-to-video and image-to-video.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
Runway Aleph
Runway in-context video-to-video model for style transfer, object manipulation, environment changes and character edits.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14