Caroline Hyde

We're tracking macro conditions.

But so far, Shopify merchants consistently outperform the overall market.

And we're seeing that they're, you know, they have a lot of buyers right now.

Heidi Finkelstein, great to have some time with you.

President of Shopify.

What a weekend it's been for you, I'm sure.

Now coming up, we speak with Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela.

As of course, the company's launching its latest texture video model is already top of the leaderboards.

This is Bloomberg Tech.

Runway, when it's announced the launch of its latest AI model, Gen 4.5, which aims to deliver the best in the world text-to-video.

Joining us now to break down why it's that is Cristobal Valenzuela, Runway CEO.

Last time I checked on the leaderboards, some of them already have you at the number one spot.

Cristobal, what is it that yours offers versus Sora 2 versus the latest Google offering?

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?