Runway

Runway builds “Real-World Intelligence” systems meant to understand, simulate, and act in the world. It offers different products for different work needs, built on top of the same underlying world-model approach. It’s a fit if you want an end-to-end creative tool, a developer platform for AI workflows, or a robotics simulation toolkit for policy inference.

• Creative suite Generate and edit video, images, and audio in one cloud workspace, for individuals and teams.
• Developer platform Build pipelines that combine multiple models, modalities, and tasks, and trigger workflows via custom endpoints.
• Robotics simulation toolkit Run policy inference through photorealistic simulation, including policy evaluation and synthetic data generation powered by GWM-1.

The robotics side is built around GWM-1, a general world model used to simulate interactions in realistic settings. The platform is positioned to help teams take AI systems from model outputs to actions that can be evaluated in simulated environments, including generating training data.

Runway also describes research work on general world models intended to simulate broad sets of experiences, which shows up in how their products are organized around shared intelligence. The company states Runway Creative is used by 60m+ creatives worldwide and offers a free option that can be canceled.