We co-created Stable Diffusion. Then we built Gen-2, the first commercially usable AI video generator. Text to video. Type a sentence, get a movie clip. That's not incremental progress. That's a new medium.
I'm from Chile. I came to NYU for an MFA in art. Not computer science — art. Runway started as my thesis project. A Chilean art student built one of the most important AI companies in the world. I love that story.
Hollywood is terrified of us. And they should be. Not because we're replacing filmmakers — we're replacing the $50,000 VFX budget that prevents most filmmakers from even trying.
Everything is Alive won an Emmy. It was made with Runway. An AI-assisted film won an Emmy. That's not the future. That already happened.
We raised $141 million from Google, NVIDIA, and Salesforce. All of them want to own AI video. None of them have a product as good as ours. When your investors are also your would-be competitors, you know the tech is real.
The camera democratized image-making. Photoshop democratized image editing. Runway is democratizing video creation. Each tool made art more accessible. We're just the latest one.