The latest AI news and updates of Runway — AI creative platform for video generation, Characters API, and General World Models. Covering Runway's latest product updates, launches, and company news from the past 90 days.
Runway23h agoRunway launched App Studio, a no-code builder that turns natural language descriptions into reusable creative apps. These tools run on Runway’s image, video, and audio models, incorporating team Brand Kits and existing credits. The platform includes five initial apps like Character Swap and Precise Edit, and supports one-click conversion of Agent sessions or Workflows into shareable, admin-controlled tools.
RunwayOct 21Runway Creative is now available in the Claude Marketplace. Eligible enterprise teams already working with Anthropic can apply part of their existing spend commitments toward Runway’s video, image, and audio generation platform. This integration centralizes creative and AI budgets, directing Runway purchases through the existing Anthropic procurement channel.
RunwayOct 19Runway integrated its creative platform into Grok Bot via the Model Context Protocol. The integration connects Runway accounts to the chat interface, enabling image, video, and sound generation. It requires no API key, with generations billed against existing Runway account credits and saved directly to the user's Runway library.
RunwayOct 14Runway partnered with Baseten to bring its Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models to enterprise environments. This integration provides dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure with reserved GPU capacity and support for fine-tuning on proprietary data. The deployment includes a 99.99% uptime SLA and meets SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance standards for secure production serving.
RunwayOct 13Runway launched Runway for web design, an integration connecting its generation models to Replit. The system uses the Model Context Protocol to generate images, video, and assets directly inside Replit projects. Access requires no API key, using existing Runway account credentials to authenticate and bill generations against current plan credits.
RunwayOct 8Runway is a launch partner for Anthropic's new Claude Motion feature, now in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. Claude Motion generates animated explainers from text, charts, and images, which export directly into Runway. Once in Runway, these animations serve as a base for generating new video and images, adding sound, and reformatting for different channels.
RunwayOct 1Runway Labs introduced Project Continuum, a research application that reimagines computer interfaces through real-time video models. The system features four interaction modes: Portals for interactive overlays, Responsive Video Interfaces for spatial-aware content, Interactive Worlds for immersive simulations, and Visual Thinking for visualizing autonomous agent workflows.
RunwaySep 30Runway unveiled Solaris, its first Interface World Model, at its AI Summit. The system generates interactive interfaces frame-by-frame in real time, responding directly to user intention without requiring code. Solaris builds on Runway’s Gen-4.5 video model to create software environments that evolve as users interact. Early access is available via a request form on the Runway website.
RunwaySep 30Runway introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight World Action Model that converts video pre-training into real-world robot control. The model functions as a generalist policy for robotics, currently undergoing testing with partners including Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra. Runway plans to release the model weights publicly in the coming months.
RunwaySep 30Runway launched Runway Ads, an autonomous engine for performance marketing that generates, publishes, and iterates on ad creative with built-in human approval. The system connects to ad accounts to optimize campaigns, achieving a 1,000% increase in ad volume and 41% lower cost per subscriber in internal testing. It is currently available to select enterprise partners, with wider rollout coming soon.
RunwaySep 29Runway launched Agent Tagging, allowing users to tag the Runway Agent directly in asset comments to request edits, options, and fixes. The agent interprets natural language instructions to perform tasks like swapping elements or adjusting lighting, posting the resulting media directly back into the comment thread. This update removes the need to switch to a separate chat window.
RunwaySep 29Runway is joining the OpenAI Marketplace as a launch partner, making Runway Creative available to enterprise teams. This integration enables applying existing OpenAI spend commitments toward Runway purchases. Runway Creative bundles image, video, and audio models, including Gen-4.5 and ElevenLabs V4, alongside tools for text-to-video generation and AI-assisted editing.
RunwaySep 29Runway integrates the ElevenLabs v4 model into its creative platform, adding expressive narration and character dialogue capabilities. The model supports diverse voice personas and emotional tones for video characters directly within the Runway workspace. This update is available now for all users in the Runway web application.
RunwaySep 25Runway launched Layers, a tool that splits any image into individually editable transparent layers with a single click. The system isolates subjects, backgrounds, and text for independent movement, resizing, or rotation within the Runway editor. Each generation costs 18 credits and produces transparent PNG layers, with options for bulk exporting assets to external photo editing software.
RunwaySep 25Runway evaluated its Model Router across 250 image-to-video prompts to compare cost and production usability against a state-of-the-art model baseline. The evaluation shows that dynamic routing maintains production-ready output quality while reducing generation costs by up to 83 percent. The results demonstrate that constrained routing configurations capture a balance between performance and efficiency for production pipelines.
RunwaySep 24Runway launched Draft mode for the Seedance 2.5 model, enabling video previews generated twice as fast while consuming 70% fewer credits. This two-stage workflow supports rapid concept exploration before committing to a full-quality 1080p render via the Enhance Draft tool. The feature is available now within the Runway web application.
RunwaySep 24Runway is now available inside DaVinci Resolve, bringing video generation, editing, and upscaling directly to the timeline. The integration embeds Runway’s models within the application’s interface, keeping clip processing and color adjustments within the project environment.
RunwaySep 22Runway launched DIFFUSE, a hiring platform connecting agencies, brands, and studios with AI-native creative talent. The platform addresses enterprise demand for professionals fluent in frontier AI tools. Runway’s data shows 17% of over 1,000 creative job postings from nearly 400 companies now mention AI skills, with Runway emerging as the most-requested video-specific tool among these roles.
RunwaySep 21Runway expanded its Workflows pipeline builder with five new capabilities: Compositing, Alpha, HDR, Depth Map, and RGB Depth. These additions allow for building more of a creative pipeline directly within the Runway platform. The update centralizes transparency, color grading, and depth processing tasks into a single, connected node-based environment.
RunwaySep 18Runway updated its Ruby model to support alpha channels. The model converts footage to HDR while keeping the alpha channel fully intact in a single step. This maintains transparency throughout the color-grading process.
RunwaySep 18Runway consolidated its credit system, making purchased credits fungible across both its web app and Runway Dev. This update provides enterprise customers with a single credit pool, centralized usage analytics, and scaled support. New enterprise sign-ups receive 100,000 free credits, while existing customers gain 5,000 credits and a complimentary Applied AI Architect day for referrals through December 31, 2026.
RunwaySep 17Runway launched Enhance Frame Rate, a new model that converts existing footage to target frame rates. The tool supports 25, 30, 48, 60, and 120 fps, as well as the NTSC 59.94 standard. It synthesizes intermediate frames to conform video to specific delivery specifications directly within the Runway app.
RunwaySep 16Runway launched its Fall 2026 collection, adding Fish Audio S2.1 Pro, Cartesia Sonic 3.6, and MiniMax H3 Max to its creative platform. The update also introduces Flux Video upscaling and editing tools for refining footage. These models and tools are now available alongside existing frontier models in the Runway workspace.
RunwaySep 11Runway integrates with ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol, enabling image and video generation directly within conversations. The integration provides access to models including Seedance 2.5 and Kling without requiring an API key. Generations consume existing Runway credits and save automatically to the Runway library, with support also available for Claude, Cursor, and Replit.
RunwaySep 11Runway now offers enterprise licensing for its state-of-the-art model weights. This program provides companies with model weights, training scripts, and white-glove support from researchers to fine-tune models on proprietary data. Licensed models run entirely within an enterprise's own infrastructure, allowing for full control over deployment, versioning, and commercialization of the resulting outputs.
RunwaySep 10Runway published a research overview detailing its approach to real-time video generation, prioritizing reduced time-to-first-frame and streaming outputs. The method converts base models into causal, autoregressive generators, using two-stage distillation to achieve low-latency performance. This research aims to enable interactive applications in gaming, robotics, and simulation by moving beyond static, multi-stage generation processes.
RunwaySep 9Runway launched free plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, integrating AI generation, editing, and upscaling directly into the timeline. The panel supports video and image prompting, re-rendering, and subject isolation, with results landing at the playhead. Generations consume existing Runway credits and include access to models like Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1, and Kling 3.0 Pro.
RunwaySep 4Runway launched a self-serve Team Plan for 2 to 9 members, featuring a pooled credit balance and shared projects. The plan includes frame-accurate commenting, asset lineage, 1TB of storage, and access to custom agent skills and Agent Connectors. It costs $55 per seat monthly when billed annually, providing 165,600 credits per year for the entire team.
RunwaySep 3Runway released GWM Worlds 2, a General World Model generating interactive, real-time simulations at 720p and 24 fps with 48000 Hz audio. The model supports defined environments, subjects, and physical rules, responding to text actions and continuous camera motion. It uses a WorldPrompt format to maintain persistent world states, enabling continuous, non-scripted sessions for entertainment and robotics simulation.
RunwaySep 2Runway launched Runway Dev MCP, a tool connecting its developer platform directly to coding agents. This integration allows agents to build, debug, and manage media generation workflows, including setting up Model Routers and looking up tasks, without leaving the editor. The platform is available now at dev.runway.com.
RunwaySep 1Runway now supports ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) exports within its Ruby model. The model generates scene-referred, half-float EXR sequences in ACEScg 1.3 and 2.0 formats. These outputs enable direct integration of Ruby’s SDR-to-HDR video conversions into professional color-managed post-production pipelines.
RunwayAug 31Runway has introduced Solaris, an Interface World Model that generates interactive software interfaces frame-by-frame in real-time without code. By eliminating intermediate representations like code, the model synthesizes interfaces directly from user interactions. Solaris outperformed frontier LLMs in structural similarity and information retention during interface reconstruction benchmarks. Interested parties can request early access through the Runway website.
RunwayAug 29Runway added Google's Omni 1.1 Flash video generation and editing model to its creative platform. The model supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video generation. Access is available now directly within the Runway app.
RunwayAug 26Runway adds Meta's Muse Image model to its creative platform today. The model joins the platform's existing image and video generation tools, supporting image generation directly within the Runway interface. Access to the model is available now through the Runway app.
RunwayAug 25Runway has added Alibaba's WAN 3.0 model to its creative platform. The model generates video and audio content using multiple image, video, and audio reference inputs. WAN 3.0 is available now for use directly within the Runway interface.
RunwayAug 22Runway released Ruby, a new model that converts SDR video into 16-bit HDR. It outputs 16-bit EXR sequences or 10- and 12-bit ProRes and HEVC in BT.2020 color with PQ or HLG. The model supports any uploaded or generated video up to 30 seconds and is available now for Max and Enterprise plan subscribers.
RunwayAug 22Runway provides unlimited generation access to the MiniMax H3 video model for all Max plan subscribers. This offer removes usage caps and generation limits for the model until August 23.
RunwayAug 13Runway integrated xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 model into its creative platform. The model joins the platform's existing image and video generation tools, providing additional options for generative media production. Access to the model is available now through the Runway interface.
RunwayAug 12Runway added connectors for Figma, Dropbox, and Notion to Agent on Runway. These integrations sync designs, files, and documents directly into the agent workspace, centralizing assets from external platforms. This feature is available to all users on paid plans.
RunwayAug 12Runway added the LTX-2.5 video generation model to its creative platform today. Developed by Lightricks, the model supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation. It is now available for use directly within the Runway interface.
RunwayAug 5Runway is adding ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 video model to its creative platform. The model supports up to 50 multimodal reference inputs and generates native video clips up to 30 seconds long. New Max plan subscribers receive 7 days of unlimited access to the model upon its upcoming launch.
RunwayAug 1Runway integrated xAI’s Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model into its creative platform. The model generates video from still images, allowing for motion and camera control directly within the Runway interface. This addition expands the platform's available generative media tools, providing access to xAI’s latest image-to-video capabilities for video production workflows.
RunwayJul 31Runway added the MiniMax H3 model to its creative platform. This open-weight multimodal model supports text, image, audio, and video inputs with native audio-visual output. It enables instruction-led edits, brand rendering, and video-to-video motion transfer. Users can now access H3 alongside other frontier models directly within the Runway interface.
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