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Runway is pretty far down on this leaderboard (Google Veo 2 is on top): https://huggingface.co/spaces/ArtificialAnalysis/Video-Gener...

Hopefully Gen-4 can improve.

So, these demos look outstanding, far better than Wan-2.1 which is the current open weights leader in the video generation community.

I’m particularly interested in their claim that they’re improving on real world physics and understanding, sort of a JEPA-reminiscent claim. Nothing about their model, training, infra in the announcement.

I’ve never used Runway, but their pitch and partners (Lionsgate, for instance) tell me they’re working on making a tool for industry pros —- this already looks to me like it will be useful if it integrates well with existing tools.

One of the most interesting shots they showed was an infill based on sketch; they had an image of a misty farm area, and a sketch of a farmhouse, they showed the farmhouse rendered in, then the same house on fire, then what looked like maybe a color grading step. I’m curious to play with this and see how good it is.

*UPDATE* I just paid for a monthly standard subscription to try it out, and .. couldn’t figure out how to get access to it at all. I can say that Runway 3 ML Turbo gives real nightmare fuel on cel-shaded source images in I2V use cases though. Waiting to see if I get my refund or access.

This looks really pretty and the website hints at professional use, but I'd like to ask anyone who works in the media industry - is this model good enough, or convenient enough to fit into the production pipeline of professional video editors or will this be another novelty model used to generate memes and stuff?

Pretty impressive. I watched "The Retrieval". It gave me slight Scavengers Reign vibes, maybe inspired by it. There are still some minor/subtle artifacts that give it away as an AI generation, but still totally watchable and enjoyable.

I suspect we'll see some fully AI generated feature length films in the future. There will be all sorts of discourse about it, but IMO at the end of the day, it's just another tool for expression.

Lots of quick cuts on the longer movies. Good quality but I can't find any details on perhaps one of the most important questions, which is what's the maximum duration for either T2V or I2V? I have yet to see any decent cohesive generators beyond roughly 10 seconds.

I'm shortening my time-line to 10 years before we can watch fully generated in real time movies about our preferred prompt.