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Runway announces Gen-4.5, goes straight to top of video leaderboard

You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.

They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.

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AIFF, the AI Film Festival, showcases innovative video, as industry set to pounce

Jacob Adler’s «Total Pixel Space,» is an innovative, mind bending AI movie.
A frame from Jacob Adler’s «Total Pixel Space,» winner of the Grand Prize at the AIFF awards. (Picture: screenshot.)
In just three short years, AI has gone from being vilified in Hollywood to having its own AI film festival. It’s not quite Cannes yet, but look at the jury, and you’ll find an important list of industry insiders and VFX veterans.

6,000 submissions
Run by Runway, an ai art company focusing on film shorts, and offering a $15,000 grand prize, it showcases independent creators using AI in their projects, a far cry from the accusations of AI stealing creative jobs.

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