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On TVN Exponencial we spoke with Cristobal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala, the partners and owners of the Chilean company ...
CEO & Co-Founder, Runway
Search every verified Cristóbal Valenzuela interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Cristóbal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, has recently discussed the company's expansion and its focus on developing AI models for video generation and physical AI applications. In interviews with Chilean media, he stated that Runway has a valuation of $5.3 billion, employs 250 people, and has offices in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London, Japan, and Seattle. He said the company is exploring establishing a research center in Chile, potentially involving investment in sectors such as mining, agriculture, and aquaculture, and has discussed with Chilean government officials the possibility of public investment in the company, citing examples like Singapore's government as an early investor in Runway. Valenzuela has also spoken about the impact of generative AI on the film industry, asserting that the Hollywood industry as it is known "will either cease to exist or will have to change radically" as a consequence of technological change. He described Runway's work on "world models" that simulate physical laws to train robots and autonomous systems, noting partnerships with companies like NVIDIA for real-time model development. In a conversation with Paramount's CTO, he discussed AI's potential as a major technology trend and the importance of building and experimentation for those entering the field. He also mentioned plans to expand Runway's presence in Japan, citing the country's robotics industry and aging population as factors.
On TVN Exponencial we spoke with Cristobal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala, the partners and owners of the Chilean company ...
In this episode of Exponencial, Carolina Urrejola talks with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala, co-founders of Runway, the story behind one of the most influential generative artificial intelligence companies in the world. Check out this engaging conversation where they explore how AI is transforming the creative and audiovisual industry, the opportunities and challenges for content creators, and the global impact of technology developed by Chilean talent.
Cristobal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala, partners and owners of the Chilean company Runway, tell us how much it would cost ...
A World of Pixels: World Models, Pixel-Based Generation, and the Movies of the Future Cristóbal Valenzuela is co-CEO and co-founder of Runway, a global AI research and technology company that develops foundational AI research models and tools to create superintelligence in the real world. Before Runway, Cris was a researcher at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). We talked with Cristóbal about how the artificial intelligence behind image and video generation is built, and where that technology is headed. Cristóbal explains why, unlike with text, our eyes are relentless…
Runway, the applied research and artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Chileans Cristóbal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala, has evolved from a video editing tool into one of the world's leading AI labs, with a valuation of US$5.3 billion, offices in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo, and contracts with all the major Hollywood studios. Today, their ambitions extend beyond film: their General World Models aim to simulate the real world to train robots and autonomous systems in industries such as mining, agriculture, and aquaculture. In this episode of AI Lab, from Diario Financiero, t…
/ @tbs_bloomberg 👆チャンネル登録・高評価をよろしくお願いします 最先端のテックストーリーをわかりやすくお届けする番組「1on1 Tech」 テーマは【ハリウッドからロボットへ 「動画生成AI」の革命児】です。 「AIがあれば、頭の中の物語を誰でも映像にできる」 「映画の爆発シーンはたった1秒に60万円。でもAIなら10円」 こう話すのは、動画生成AIを牽引するRunwayのCEO クリストバル・バレンズエラさん。 ただ、彼らが目指すのは映像制作にとどまりません。 「動画AIは、ただきれいな映像を作っているんじゃない。重力や光など『この世界の物理法則』を理解し始めているんだ」 AIが現実世界をシミュレーションし、日本のロボットの「頭脳」になる驚きの未来がもうすぐそこに来ています。 ぜひ最後までご覧ください！ ◆出演◆ ▼クリストバル・バレンズエラ（Cristóbal Valenzuela） Runway 共同創業者 兼 CEO チリで生まれ育つ。 Runway創業前はニューヨーク大学ティッシュ芸術学部に在籍。 2023年にはTIME誌の「AI分野で最も影響力のある100人」に選出される ▼中川 雅博 TBS CROSS DIG with Bloomberg ビジネスエディター 東洋経済新報社で『週刊東洋経済』『会社四季報』の記者・編集者と…
Paramount's CTO on closing the gap between vision and screen. Try Runway: https://app.runwayml.com Phil Wiser has watched a technology wave from every possible seat: founder of the first company to sell music over the internet, an executive inside Sony Music as Napster hit, CTO at Hearst, and now Chief Technology Officer at Paramount. His read on this one is unequivocal — AI belongs among the greatest technology trends of all time — and his playbook is to wait for the dependencies, engineer the aha moments and never lead with the technology. Subscribe: https://youtube.com/runwayml?sub_conf.…
What is Runway and how is it shaping the future of AI video? In this conversation, Premji Invest sits down with Cris Valenzuela, Co-Founder and CEO of Runway, to discuss how generative AI is transforming video creation, simulation, and world modeling. Runway is a leading AI research and product company building state-of-the-art video generation and simulation models. In this interview, Cris shares how Runway’s original vision, formed in 2018, has remained consistent as AI video has gone mainstream, and how advances in compute, data, and model design led to breakthroughs like Gen-4.5, one of t…
Runway is going global, with the AI video company opening new hubs in London, Tokyo, and Paris, and plans to invest nearly $300 million over the next few years as it scales its business and AI research. Runway co-founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube: / @bloombergtechnology Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here: • 'Bloomberg Tech' With Ed Ludlow Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and around the world he…
Runway founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela grew up in Chile before moving to New York to study at NYU's ITP program, where the seeds of Runway were planted. Since co-founding the company in 2018, he has built it into one of the leading generative video AI companies in the world, having raised more than $500M in funding and pioneered some of the first widely used text to video and video to video models. Runway is now pushing toward what Cristóbal calls world models, systems that can understand and simulate reality in ways that are reshaping film, advertising, gaming, and beyond. The next era o…
The ChatGPT craze was still years away when Chile-born Cristóbal Valenzuela started tinkering on visual AI models with two ...
“One of the factors and stories most told regarding consumption, for example, of water by data centers, is that it negatively impacts communities. Do you know what I think is between 6% of water consumption in the United States is taken by just one industry? Do you know what industry it is? The golf industry. Watering golf courses in the United States takes approximately 6 to 7% of the drinking water in the United Sta”
“The most important thing to understand is that one of the fundamental aspects of the AI boom in the world are three main ingredients. The first ingredient has to do with data: these systems learn by observing the world, just like us. We observe the world through our senses, through our eyes, we understand the world and, as Alejandro said, we can generalize—the more data, the better the performance or the better the r”
“The Hollywood industry as we know it today, either won't exist or it will have to change radically. And I think that is more than anything the consequence of this technological change that is redesigning and reinventing the way we understand movies, what a movie is. What does making a movie mean? First of all, that is the first question for me, and I think perhaps a couple of years before this revolution, making a mo”
“The way to think about it is that up until now our data center business has been almost entirely GPUs. Vera is our CPU, and you know what's really exciting is that Vera opens a brand new 200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before, and every major hyperscaler is partnering with us to get it deployed, and that's huge for the company because for the first time we have a second engine of that sca”
“I would just challenge it. Like is the machine forcing you to make bad content? No. Right? So, if it's not forcing you to make bad content, you still got creative license. Right? You still got the ability to use those tools and technologies to take your vision and realize that in whatever medium you choose to realize it in.”
“If you're spending $100 million on making one future film, which is 90 minutes, imagine taking $100 million and spending it on like 50 movies, same quality, same amount of like uh output like visually, but you make way more content. So you have way better chances of hitting something. It's a quantity problem.”
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