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Runway

StartupVideo world modelUnited States

Video-generation company whose GWM-1 general world model family includes GWM Robotics, offered as a robot policy model, policy evaluator and data-augmentation tool.

Overview

Runway is an AI company that develops video-generation models such as Gen-4.5 and, since December 2025, the GWM-1 general world model family with Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants. Its robotics product offers a GWM-1-based policy model, offline policy evaluation, data augmentation and video model licensing. It lists offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, and raised a $308M Series D led by General Atlantic in April 2025.

Sources: runway.com (11 Dec 2025) · runway.com (19 Oct 2026) · runway.com (19 Oct 2026) · techcrunch.com (3 Apr 2025)

Type
Startup
Website
runway.com

Key people

Funding history

Private company · $308M disclosed in USD across 1 of 1 listed round

Funding rounds for Runway
DateRoundAmountLeadSource
3 Apr 2025Series D$308MGeneral Atlantictechcrunch.com, 3 Apr 2025

Ranking

#80 of 104 model companies · score 9.2 / 100 · updated 19 Oct 2026

  • Published benchmarks 35%0%
  • Open weights 20%0%
  • Adoption 20%0%
  • Released models 15%20%
  • Disclosed funding 10%62%

Each bar shows an input from 0 to 100% before weighting. 0 of 1 listed models have open weights.

How we rank model companies

The score (0–100) measures public, checkable evidence about a company's robot models. It does not measure private capability. A company that publishes no benchmark results and no weights can still have strong models. Every input is computed from the data on each company page, and every number there links to its source.

InputWeightHow it is measured
Published benchmarks35%For each scored benchmark, the company's best result divided by the best result any company has published, averaged over the benchmarks it reports. No published results scores 0. Results come only from the model's own paper, model card or the official benchmark leaderboard. Scored: LIBERO (4-suite average success, %); SimplerEnv Google Robot, visual matching (%); SimplerEnv Google Robot, variant aggregation (%); SimplerEnv WidowX / Bridge (%); CALVIN ABC→D (average length, 0–5); RoboArena (pairwise rating).
Open weights20%Share of the company's listed models whose weights the public can download.
Adoption20%GitHub stars on the company's most-starred official model repository, on a log scale relative to the most-starred repository in the list. Hugging Face downloads are shown on company pages but not scored, because gated repositories report zero.
Released models15%Number of publicly announced, named models, capped at 5.
Disclosed funding10%The sum of the funding rounds listed on the company's profile that were disclosed in USD, on a log scale from $10M to the largest sum in the list. Rounds reported only in other currencies are listed but not converted or counted. This input applies only to private startups and robot makers. For big-tech divisions, research labs and listed companies it is n/a, and its weight is shared across the other inputs in proportion.

Sources. arXiv papers and official model cards for benchmarks and parameters; official leaderboards (RoboArena); the GitHub and Hugging Face APIs for stars and downloads; company announcements and established press for funding. Missing values are shown as n/a, never estimated.

Updated 19 Oct 2026. Benchmark protocols differ between papers, for example in fine-tuning and number of trials, so small gaps between close scores are not meaningful.

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Closed or unreleased-weights models (1)

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GWM Robotics (GWM-1)

Closed weightsWorld model

Robotics variant of Runway's GWM-1 world model that predicts action-conditioned video rollouts for policy evaluation and synthetic data, and serves as a backbone for customer-fine-tuned robot policy models via a Python SDK.

Released
11 Dec 2025
Parameters
n/a
License
Proprietary
Embodiments
n/a
GitHub stars
n/a
HF downloads (all time)
n/a

No benchmark results on a shared public benchmark have been published for this model.