<p id="speakable-summary" class="has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph">AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/ai-video-startup-runway-raises-315m-at-5-3b-valuation-eyes-more-capable-world-models/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">at a $5.3 billion valuation</a>, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, including Google and OpenAI. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The technology goes way beyond making videos: Runway is now pushing into general world models with applications in gaming, robotics, and maybe something closer to general intelligence. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, host Rebecca Bellan sits down with Runway co-founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela to talk about where video generation goes from here, and why Runway’s ambitions now reach <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/runway-ceo-says-ai-could-help-hollywood-make-50-films-instead-of-one-100m-blockbuster/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">well beyond Hollywood</a>. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Listen to the full episode to hear about: </p>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">Why Valenzuela thinks the real constraint on filmmaking has never been technology, and what changes when it is </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">How Runway thinks about world models differently than Google and other labs building in the space </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">What “nonlinear media” means, and why real-time video generation opens up use cases way beyond content creation </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">Why Valenzuela pushes back on the idea that AI companions are “inherently dystopian” </li>
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