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Runway

Runway (Runway AI, Inc.) is a New York-based company that develops generative AI video and image models, primarily its Gen series, used for filmmaking and creative production.

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What it does

Runway (Runway AI, Inc.) is a New York-based company that develops generative AI video and image models, primarily its Gen series, used for filmmaking and creative production.

Why it matters

Runway's models are being adopted in film and TV production, including a direct partnership with Lionsgate to train custom AI models on its film library, illustrating how generative video is entering mainstream entertainment.

How it makes money

It sells subscription and enterprise API access to its video- and image-generation tools.

Geography

United States (New York City)

AI stack position

Foundation models and AI laboratories. The organizations actually building the AI models themselves, like the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. This is the most crowded, fastest-moving layer of the AI economy right now.

Competitors

Connections (3)

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Dated or announced (2)

CoreWeave provides computing capacity to Runway
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
CoreWeave agreed to supply Runway with NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 computing systems and related software tools for training and running its video-generation models, announced December 11, 2025.

Source: 2025-12-11 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced

Limits: Does not disclose contract value, duration, or the actual capacity delivered to date.

CoreWeave Announces Agreement to Power Runway's Next Generation AI Video Models ↗
Google (Alphabet subsidiary) provides cloud computing to Runway
Provides computing capacity toDated / announced
Google invested in Runway and Runway became a Google Cloud customer, as part of a generative-AI partnership announced in 2023.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Announced

Limits: Does not establish current cloud spend, exclusivity, or the size of Google's investment; Runway has since also contracted with CoreWeave for compute.

Google invests in generative AI startup Runway, gets it as a cloud customer ↗

Comparisons (1)

Runway competes with OpenAI
Competes withComparison only
Runway's Gen video-generation models and OpenAI's Sora both compete in the text-to-video AI generation market.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Ongoing

Limits: Does not establish market share or revenue comparison.

Runway company overview ↗

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