Runway co-founders Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO, Anastasis Germanidis, CTO, and Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, Chief Design Officer.
Courtesy of Runway AI

If 2022 was the year AI image generators shot into the public consciousness, then 2023 might be the year of AI video. Leading the way is Runway, a New York City–based startup building AI-backed “text to video” and video-editing tools that can help anybody—including the team behind the mind-­bending, Oscar-­winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once—turn their ideas into moving pictures much more cheaply than ever before. The platform has racked up millions of users, the company says. “So many of the stories we’ve told ourselves for the last 150 years are rooted in one idea of how film and videos and images work,” says Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela. “We’re entering a completely new ­paradigm.”

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