Runway AI, Inc.
US AI research company building general world models (GWM-1) for video generation and a robot-learning platform for policy inference, sim evaluation and data.
Runway AI, Inc. is a New York-headquartered artificial intelligence research and product company building general-purpose multimodal world models that simulate the physical world. Originally known for pioneering generative AI video tools, Runway develops the Gen series of video models (Gen-4, Gen-4.5), Aleph, and Act-Two, alongside its flagship General World Model line, GWM-1.
The company positions world models as a path toward general-purpose simulation for hard problems including robotics, scientific discovery, and disease research, arguing that models which experience and learn from the world through trial and error can be accelerated in simulation rather than the real world. Runway Robotics is a dedicated platform that brings GWM-1 into the robot learning pipeline: it runs policy inference, predicting robot actions directly from live camera observations with models fine-tuned to specific hardware, environments, and tasks; performs offline policy evaluation by simulating policy rollouts in GWM-1 to surface failure modes before deployment to physical hardware; provides photorealistic synthetic data augmentation that transforms existing trajectories into new environments, lighting conditions, and object configurations to expand training distributions; and offers video-model licensing of GWM-1 as a diffusion backbone for customers training custom robot policies on their own infrastructure. The robotics platform is designed to require no specialized compute infrastructure to begin. Runway operates offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo, with a distributed remote workforce, and runs initiatives spanning enterprise, education, research publications, and an AI Film Festival.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Runway Robotics Policy Model
General world model that predicts robot actions from live camera observations, fine-tuned per hardware.
Offline Policy Evaluation
Simulates policy rollouts in GWM-1 to surface failure modes before deploying to physical robots.
Data Augmentation
Transforms robot trajectories into new environments and conditions to expand training data.
Contact Runway AI, Inc.
WEBSITE
https://runwayml.com/HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2018
Primary Role
Software/Algorithm
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Primary Region
North America
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