Cristobal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, explains the suite of AI capabilities built into Runway's creative platform to host Sarah Guo.
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Valenzuela: AI models on their own are not products
“Models on their own are not products, right? A model is, is, is a research component and taking a model and productionalizing that model, it's a different problem that actually building one single model, right?”
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Valenzuela: Creative AI succeeds early because creative workflows tolerate 80% accuracy
“And in research, going from 80% to a hundred percent is really hard. I think that you'll be seeing that in, like, autonomous vehicles where, like, it's always, like, two years ahead and, like, always 80%, but, like, that 20, 10% is just really hard. This is re…”
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Valenzuela: In decades, AI art will be seen as a natural, necessary transition
“What are we going to be asking ourselves in like, 1020 years, 30 years? I think it's the realization that we'll look back and we'll look at this moment as in like, yeah, I mean, it was a natural transition and we needed it. It allowed us to do so many things t…”
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Valenzuela: It takes 12-24 months to understand new AI breakthroughs
“The moment something gets released, like, let's say transformers or a particular piece of technology that you think would be interesting or could be worth experimenting with, I think it takes a collective set of months, like, 12, 24 months sometimes to underst…”
Disclosure
Valenzuela: Runway had to own its AI stack to push creative tools forward
“If we really want to make and move the standard of like creative tools in the ways and vision that we had to own our stack. And so we started building this research team, right?”
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Valenzuela: Multimodal AI will merge previously siloed creative software tools
“I think a common natural evolution of just the creative stack or the creative software solutions out there, they tend to be very specific to domains of content. So you have a tool that's specialized on, like, Image editing. And then you have a tool that specia…”