Runway Gen-1
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Runway
- C · CEO & Politics
- Cristóbal Valenzuela — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2023
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Video
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Cristóbal Valenzuela (CEO & Co-Founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Video Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- Synthetic media risks: potential copyright/style imitation issues, deepfake or deceptive content misuse, bias in generated outputs, and prompt/NSFW policy bypass attempts.
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Retired (no longer sold)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Runway's Gen-1 (February 2023), a video-to-video model that synthesizes new videos by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of a source video, with stylization, storyboard, mask, render and customization modes; in Runway's user studies its results were preferred over Stable Diffusion 1.5 (73.53%) and Text2Live (88.24%) for image-to-image and video-to-video translation. Runway deprecated it on April 6, 2025.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($5.3B valuation, Feb 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @runwayml
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Video Generation from Runway, released 2023.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“Runway Gen-1.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/runway-gen-1.html
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