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Valenzuela: Generative video models will soon run in real time

Cristóbal Valenzuela · Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway) Talks About The Future of Media and Hollywood · Apr 6, 2025 · at 16:56

Cristóbal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway, discusses the future technical capabilities and latency scaling of generative video on TBPN.

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“You're going to get really soon to a point where you can run these models in real time. And so by the time you run them in real time, you're streaming the pixels as you're watching them, interacting with them.”

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