Caroline Hyde

Yeah, that's true.

So we just released Runway Gen 4.5, our latest video model, and it tops the charts in terms of performance and benchmarks across all other models, which is kind of like a big deal within research.

It's the first time a company has led the leaderboards and this company not being basically a large research lab.

It's a model that surpasses pretty much all other models with incredible consistency, really good realistic results, and just like across the board, amazing creative results.

So really, really excited to get this model out and have people use it.

Now you had it out there on the leaderboards with a pseudonym before it was launched in public, Cristobal, and you had it called David.

Is that a Goliath David construct?

How are you competing against these vast generative AI companies?

I think we've managed to outcompete the largest research labs by being very focused.

I think it's the era of both research and efficiency.

And if you're able to maintain the focus as a team, you're able to deliver kind of groundbreaking results.

And we're proving this.

This is the first time I think we've, again, anyone has kind of topped the leaderboards not being a large, well-funded research lab.

And I think part of it is really the team.

And it's really also the vision.

We've been working on this for almost seven years.

We started working on video models when there weren't even the other boards to start with.

And I think eventually you built some sort of intuition and really good momentum as to how to improve these models over time.

And look, this is still the worst the models will ever be.

And so we have a bunch of more releases coming up that I think will further improve both pre-training and post-training.