Runway is an AI company that offers an online creative suite for generating and editing video, images and audio, plus an API for developers.
In plain words
Runway builds its own generative models, including the Gen-4.5 video model. Runway Creative is a browser-based workspace where you make and edit media from prompts. Runway Dev lets developers put Runway's models, and some from other labs, into their own apps and websites. The company also researches 'world models', AI meant to simulate how the visual world behaves.
A quick example
In the quickstart of Runway's API docs, a developer creates a text-to-video task, describes a misty mountain landscape at sunrise, and picks a Seedance model, one of the models from other labs that Runway offers. The same kind of request could power a feature inside any app.
Where you'll meet it
- One online workspace for creating and editing clips, pictures and sound.
- Apps that call Runway's video models through its API.
Related
Sources
- DocsRunway, Runway · read 29 Sept 2026
- DocsAPI Documentation, Runway Dev · read 26 Oct 2026
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