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FaceTime but all the characters are completely generated with @runwayml characters.

Proposal to rename World Models to Reuben. It's just Reuben. He was right all along.

I find myself creating things on the go. Ideas come anywhere. Especially when I'm walking. I think of them as spontaneous stories, a kind of daydreaming in motion. Until now, there was no real way to manifest that creativity quickly. But now I find myself opening Runway and just making a few clips. It's so fun. Vibe producing. A completely new way of making things. One that's only now possible. I made this exactly like that. About 40 minutes of work. The idea came after I felt a small electric jolt when plugging in my computer.

Introducing Grizzlies. A new short film generated with AI. Made by @jforozcop. All created in a matter of hours using Runway Gen-4.5 Image to Video and Nano Banana Pro. BTS workflow video coming soon. Tell your own story today at the link below.

Introducing Image to Video for Gen-4.5, the world's best video model. Built for longer stories. Precise camera control. Coherent narratives. And characters that stay consistent. Gen-4.5 Image to Video is available now for all paid plans.

The new Gen 4.5 update feels like an incredible unlock, especially for narrative work and consistency across scenes. Whenever I test new models internally, I find that the best way to evaluate performance is to use them to build a story. Here’s one I’ve always wanted to see brought to life.

Introducing the Story Panels app. A simple way to turn a single character or product image into a three panel stack that tells a story. Try it today.

The creative team is growing at Runway. And I couldn't be more excited. I'm looking for ad agency art directors who want to make things instead of pitch them. For creative devs who can not only build unreasonably ambitious ideas. They can come up with them, too. And for brand designers who are just as excited to design insider merch as they are to develop international film festival identities. If you're one of these people, or you know someone who is, please apply at the link below. Let's make things. job-boards.greenhouse.io/runwayml?keywo…

Introducing the Runway AI Summit—a new, daylong gathering in New York on March 31 bringing together industry leaders across media, film, advertising, tech and more to explore how AI is reshaping the way creative work gets done. Our inaugural keynote: Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm, with more speakers to be announced. Learn more and register at the link below.

2021: it can’t even make an image 2022: it can’t even make 5 fingers hands 2023: it can’t even make a video 2024: it can’t even make consistent scenes 2025: it can’t even make full movies 2026: oh no

Universal World Simulator Soon, everyone will have access to their own world simulator. This will be the most important technological development of our time. Video models trained at sufficient scale become world models. To predict the next frame, a video model must learn how the world works. How objects move, how forces propagate, how actions cause effects. General world models are learned approximators of physics. The hardest problems facing humanity are rooted in physical reality. Robotics, medicine, climate, materials, energy. Language models will not get us there. Text distills existing human knowledge. In order to move beyond that, we need to learn directly from raw observations of the world. Universal simulation is fundamentally about access. Experiences limited by geography and cost will become available to anyone. Running experiments today requires equipment, funding, and institutional access. With world simulators, the tools of discovery stop being scarce. Small teams will be able to develop autonomous systems and test policies across millions of scenarios without physical infrastructure. A student anywhere in the world will have her own biology lab and her own particle accelerator. Progress will not happen overnight, but it will happen faster than people expect. We anticipate half a decade before we achieve human-scale world simulation: interactive simulations indistinguishable from the real world. Within a decade, we expect to simulate physics and biology accurately enough to solve a significant percentage of today's scientific challenges. At Runway, we choose to invest in this long-term research vision rather than short-term optimization. At the same time, we will be deploying world models incrementally: this is how the world comes to understand what they are capable of, and how we learn to build them responsibly. Science is about understanding reality. Art is about transcending it. These are two expressions of the same capability, which is why we need to advance them together. Runway will always operate at their intersection. AAC Anastasis, Alejandro, Cris

Gen-4.5 is now available for all Runway plans. Runway Gen-4.5 is the world's top-rated video model, offering unprecedented visual fidelity and creative control. Make something you couldn't make before.

Livestream begins at 12pm ET. Tune in, we'll be sharing in Real-time. youtube.com/watch?v=OnXu-6…

5 things. Tomorrow 12pm ET.

New Runway shirts just dropped. 🐐

Gen-4.5 can handle a wide range of aesthetics, from photorealistic and cinematic to "practical" puppetry, 3D animation, anime and more. All while maintaining a coherent visual language across your generations. So you can explore all possible worlds to tell all imaginable stories.

Character morphing should be a category of its own inside Gen-4.5

I've never used a model that feels this liberating. It's like manifesting daydreams in near realtime, just genuinely cool to use. Got the idea in the subway, generating with Whisper Thunder while in between meetings, 10 mins of editing. And you have it.