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Making models available to artists led Runway toward research

Anastasis Germanidis describes Runway’s early aim of making open-source models easier for artists to use. He says the team soon realized it needed an internal research organization.

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Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

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those models are too difficult to use if you’re not a machine learning engineer. Like, what happens when you give them to artists? Very quickly, we realized we needed to build a research org, inside of Runway

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