Runway's Gen-3 Out of the Lab

RunwayML is a fascinating company.

They built an AI-centric suite of tools for filmmakers and editors, introducing their Gen1 product, one of the first video-to-video models, and later a cutting-edge text-to-video AI model with Gen2.

Since then, the AI video scene has exploded with OpenAI's Sora, China's Kling, and LumaLabs' Dream Machine, making Gen2 look positively quaint.

Thankfully Runway’s Gen-3 is here and wow is it impressive. It feels much more like actual films than anything we’ve seen to date, likely due to Runway's filmmaker-centric approach.

This weekend, they released Gen3 to their Creative Partner Program, putting it in the hands of some of the internet's best creators. Here’s a list of some of our favorite generations.

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Nicolas Neubert works at Runway and makes just some incredible visuals.

ProperPrompter is a fun follow on X/Twitter and spent some time diving into a thread on how it can reveal text within the video model.

Uncanny Harry explores the found footage horror side of things…

Another great one from Harry

AI Fashion show from The Dor Brothers

Water physics. Really lots of physics in a ton of these clips.

Semi-depressed Sad Stuff Bears Living Real Lives?

Runway’s CEO put a camera on the back of a bee

And, of course, the great Dave Clark has already made a full blown short film.

We all have to wait a lil longer for general public access to Runway Gen-3 but it feels like this will be in our hands sooner rather than later.

That’s it for today! See y’all tomorrow.