Cristóbal Valenzuela
@c_valenzuelab
cofounder ceo @runwayml
AIFF 2025 was special. Still some surprises left. The show hasn't ended.

With the gold medal at the IMO, the only logical next milestone is to have AI win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Whoever gets there first wins the race.
Act-Two is now available via the Runway API, allowing you to bring our most advanced motion capture directly into your apps, products, platforms and websites. Learn more and get started at the link below.
Introducing Act-Two, our next-generation motion capture model with major improvements in generation quality and support for head, face, body and hand tracking. Act-Two only requires a driving performance video and reference character. Available now to all our Enterprise…
The economy is transitioning from pay for the process to pay for the results. Two examples in marketing: 1) Historical MO in most companies is to hire a service where there are experts that will do a job. Think website design/build. You pay for the process that will get you a…
Learn how to create expressive character performances with Act-Two, our most advanced motion capture yet. Now supporting hand and upper body tracking as well as an even wider variety of characters and styles.
Probably one of the most entertaining shows out there right now, @NeuralViz is making something really fun to watch while also creating great characters and IP in the process. This will become a bigger thing soon.
The Cop Files: Part VI Powered by Runway Act Two
Where we heading, you don't have to learn an interface. The interface will adapt to your needs. From "learn our tools" to "just tell us what you want." Products with complex interfaces requiring significant time investment to master or extensive UIs with too many buttons,…
We’re cooking something really special. The bitter lesson is actually so sweet
How it feels when the research team moves the new checkpoint to a stage link and you get to try a new model the world has never seen before for the first time
Right now, there's vastly more content being consumed than produced. Millions of people might watch a single Youtube video, but only one person (or small team) made it. The consumption-to-creation ratio is heavily skewed toward consumption. As AI models become more sophisticated,…
The concept of billions of people having an AI model in their pocket, generating everything they can dream of (and uploading much of it to a global superbrain), is less than a decade away. We live in crazy times.
The concept of billions of people having an AI model in their pocket, generating everything they can dream of (and uploading much of it to a global superbrain), is only a decade away. We live in crazy times.
Here is an alternative take of This Week episode. Thought it was too intense so we switched back to the original. Great episode @iamneubert
The release of our next generation motion capture model, Act-Two. How to use it. And some great work from the community. Get caught up on what happened This Week with Runway.
Branding experiment with @runwayml, vol. 2! It's so fun to quickly generate and visualize an idea with style control and object consistency and it wouldn't be possible without all the recently released features like Chat Mode and Gen-4 References. As usual, all the assets(images…
The release of our next generation motion capture model, Act-Two. How to use it. And some great work from the community. Get caught up on what happened This Week with Runway.
Now let's do 100 times faster
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos said during the earnings call yesterday that, for the first time, Netflix has used generative AI in one of their original series or films. He said the sequence was completed '10 times faster' than would have been possible using traditional workflows.