# Runway Gen-2

- Date: 2023-03
- Type: model
- Credit: Runway
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trXPfpV5iRQ
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/runway-gen2

A quick follow-up to Gen-1, Gen-2 improves upon the initial video-to-video capabilities with higher-fidelity video generation — and makes the leap to text-to-video. Type a prompt, get a 4-second video clip. The quality is rough, the clips are short, and the physics are wrong. None of that matters. What matters is that for the first time in history, anyone with a browser can generate original video from nothing but words. Runway Gen-2 creates the AI filmmaking community overnight. The experiments begin.

Links:
- Runway Research: https://runwayml.com/research/gen-2
- Runway Blog: https://runwayml.com/research/scale-speed-and-stepping-stones-the-path-to-gen-2
- Barsee: "AI filmmaking is almost here" (Jul 2023): https://x.com/heyBarsee/status/1685673892059234304
- Runway: "Turn words into worlds" (Dec 2023): https://x.com/runwayml/status/1731705542093983810

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/runway-gen2
Era: 2023 · The Cambrian Explosion
Last updated: 2026-10-02