--- description: Find out why Runway Gen-2 is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: Runway Gen-2: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5a79b649ecbae71/698a419bdb29870b2a26979b/best-inventions-2023-runway-gen-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Inventive Film Editing Runway Gen-2 by Pranav Dixit  In June, Runway – a Google-backed startup whose visual effects tools were used to help make the mind-bending graphics in Oscar winner _Everything Everywhere All At Once_ – introduced its Gen-2 model. The new version lets anyone generate full-blown videos from just text prompts, images, or other videos. Runway co-founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela compares the new tech to the invention of the camera 200 years ago. “AI is a new kind of camera,” he says, “that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326988/runway-gen-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326988/runway-gen-2/"},"headline":"Inventive Film Editing","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:23:54.463Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326988/runway-gen-2/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5a79b649ecbae71/698a419bdb29870b2a26979b/best-inventions-2023-runway-gen-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5a79b649ecbae71/698a419bdb29870b2a26979b/best-inventions-2023-runway-gen-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326988/runway-gen-2/","name":"Inventive Film Editing"}}]}] ```