Runway’s new AI beats Google and OpenAI in video benchmarks 🎥🔥

Runway just dropped Gen-4.5, and it immediately shot to #1 on the Video Arena leaderboard — overtaking Google’s Veo 3 and pushing OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro all the way down to seventh. The rankings come from blind A/B tests run by thousands of users.

Why Gen-4.5 is winning:

• Built and optimized for NVIDIA’s new Blackwell chips, letting Runway train world models that understand real physics.

• Objects now move with convincing weight, inertia, and momentum, even under complex camera motion.

• Fine details stay stable and coherent — no melting textures during fast shots.

Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela said their 100-person team beat trillion-dollar labs by focusing entirely on video, instead of splitting research across text, code, and multimodal systems.