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Runway CEO and Co-Founder Cristóbal Valenzuela at Semafor World Economy
Semafor World Economy Summit 2026
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May 1, 2026
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Runway CEO and Co-Founder Cristóbal Valenzuela at Semafor World Economy
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Semafor World Economy Summit 2026
· 2026
Cristóbal Valenzuela
(CEO and Co-Founder, Runway, guest)
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Executive Summary
Runway is a generative AI company with a dual focus: providing cost-reducing video generation tools to Hollywood and creating synthetic video data to train robots and autonomous systems (Physical AI).
The company's "world models" are already being used by every major Hollywood studio, significantly lowering costs in pre-production, scripting, and visual effects.
Runway is pioneering the use of synthetic video to solve the primary data bottleneck in robotics and autonomous vehicles, enabling robots to learn from generated scenarios.
The company has developed real-time video generation technology, opening up new business models like consumption-based pricing for interactive media, and is navigating intense competition for compute resources.
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