Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan Phillips, head of enterprise product at Runway ML, walked through at VB Transform 2026, arguing that even companies not building foundation models themselves can learn from how Runway builds, evaluates, and ships them."I think even if you are not all building models yourselves, it's helpful to learn how we do it because I think almost all of the lessons are applicable to what you all are doing day-to-day," Phillips said.Runway is an applied AI research company building general world mode [...]
The AI startup Runway, which recently partnered with AMC Networks, is now trying to break into the gaming industry. The company has plans to launch its latest platform, called Game Worlds, next week, [...]
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audi [...]
Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]
Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company [...]