Runway Research develops multimodal Artificial Intelligence systems that enhance human creativity. Their tools can transform text into images, create new images from existing ones, and generate videos from text, allowing creative professionals like filmmakers and brands to produce visual content without traditional filming. This capability makes content creation faster and more cost-effective. Runway Research differentiates itself in the generative AI market by offering a comprehensive suite of tools that can also perform tasks like frame interpolation and custom AI training. The company aims to empower clients in storytelling through advanced AI technology, operating on a subscription or usage-based pricing model.

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. The AI media tech provider Runway has announced the release of Frames, its newest text-to-image generation model, and it’s winning early praise from users for producing highly cinematic visuals — a fitting compliment given Runway is known primarily as an AI video model provider. Could Frames dethrone Midjourney as the go-to choice for AI filmmakers and artists?Announced back in November 2024, Frames was initially made available to selected Runway Creators Program ambassadors and power users over the last few weeks.As of today, it’s available to all through Runway’s Unlimited and Enterprise subscription plans, which cost $95 per month/$912 when paid annually or, in the case of the Enterprise plan, $1,500 annually. The company has also posted a showcase of new images generated by users of Frames on its website here, under the name “Worlds of Frames.”Users can generate still images with it on Runway’s website at app.runwayml.com — if they have subscribed to the appropriate plan — and then with one click, use the images as the basis for movies made with Runway’s image-to-video models such as Gen-3 Alpha Turbo. According to Runway, Frames provides an advanced level of stylistic control and visual fidelity, making it a versatile tool for industries like editorial, art direction, pre-visualization, brand development, and production.As Cristóbal Valenzuela, Runway’s cofounder and CEO, wrote on a post on the social network X: “Frames has been engineered from the ground up for professional creative work

Runway’S New Ai Image Generator Frames Is Here, And It Looks Fittingly Cinematic

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. A team from Adobe Research and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an artificial intelligence system that could change how visual effects are made for films, games and interactive media.The technology, called TransPixar, adds a crucial feature to AI-generated videos: the ability to create see-through elements like smoke, reflections, and ethereal effects that blend naturally into scenes. Current AI video tools typically can only generate solid images, making TransPixar a significant technical achievement.“Alpha channels are crucial for visual effects, allowing transparent elements like smoke and reflections to blend seamlessly into scenes,” said Yijun Li, project leader at Adobe Research and one of the paper’s authors. “However, generating RGBA video, which includes alpha channels for transparency, remains a challenge due to limited datasets and the difficulty of adapting existing models.”The breakthrough comes at a critical time as demand for visual effects continues to surge across the entertainment, advertising and gaming industries. Traditional VFX work often requires painstaking manual effort by artists to create convincing transparent effects.A demonstration of TransPixar’s transparency effects shows a photorealistic robot rendered with complex reflective surfaces and seamless alpha-channel blending, allowing the image to be integrated into any background

Smoke, Reflections And Portals: Adobe'S Transpixar Takes Ai Vfx To The Next Level

Smoke, Reflections And Portals: Adobe’S Transpixar Takes Ai Vfx To The Next Level

"By integrating Runway's API with NVIDIA's frameworks, we're enabling creators to create content at the speed of thought."

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. As Google and OpenAI continue to crank up the video generation space with their respective AI models, Runway, another notable player in the category, is moving to expand the reach of these advanced systems. Today, the New York-based company announced a new talent network that helps brands, agencies and studios hire AI filmmakers.Starting today, global creatives, artists and companies specializing in AI video tools — such as those from Runway — will be able to use the network to showcase their work and connect with folks searching for talent in the industry. The platform is already home to dozens of independent AI artists, specializing in different areas, as well as production houses. The move delivers dual benefits. First, it acts as a much-needed bridge to help companies that are looking to accelerate their creative workflows with AI discover and hire the right AI video talent for their needs

Ai Filmmakers Take Note! Runway Launches Talent Platform To Meet, Greet, And Get Hired

「Veo 2」Image credit: Google. Google は、より写実的な映像を生成すると主張する、動画生成モデルの最新バージョン「Veo 2」で、OpenAI の「Sora」に対抗している。. 同社は、画像生成モデル Imagen 3 も更新し、より豊かで詳細な写真を作成するようにした。

Google、新Ai動画生成モデル「Veo 2」を発表——視聴者の体験はOpenaiの「Sora」を上回ると主張

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Google is going head to head against OpenAI’s Sora with the newest version of its video generation model, Veo 2, which it says makes more realistic-looking videos.The company also updated its image generation model Imagen 3 to produce richer, more detailed photos. Google said Veo 2 has “a better understanding of real-world physics and the nuances of human movement and expression.” It is available on Google Labs’ VideoFX platform — but only on a waitlisted basis. Users will need to sign up through a Google Form and wait for access to be granted provisionally by Google at a time of its choosing.“Veo 2 also understands the language of cinematography: Ask it for a genre, specify a lens, suggest cinematic effects and Veo 2 will deliver — at resolutions up to 4K,” Google said in a blog post. Video generated with Veo 2While Veo 2 is available only to select users, the original Veo remains available on Vertex AI. Videos created with Veo 2 will contain Google’s metadata watermark SynthID to identify these as AI-generated. Google admits, though, that Veo 2 may still hallucinate extra fingers and the like, but it promises the new model produces fewer hallucinations.  Veo 2 will compete against OpenAI’s recently released Sora video generation model to attract filmmakers and content creators. Sora had been in previews for a while before OpenAI made it available to paying subscribers. Impressively, Google says that on its own internal tests gauging “overall preference” (i.e

Google Debuts New Ai Video Generator Veo 2 Claiming Better Audience Scores Than Sora

Lastly, Runway ML has launched a feature that allows users to alter video aspect ratios and simulate cinematic camera movements.

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Over the summer, video AI startup Runway unveiled the latest version of its own generation model, which features more lifelike faces.

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