Runway

Co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis, speaking at Bloomberg Tech in London according to write-ups of Bloomberg's report, says annualized revenue is on track to reach about $450 million by the end of 2026, more than double the September figure; the projection is the company's own and not independently verified.

Says annualized revenue doubled to $200 million since April (company figure) as big customers increasingly license its models directly, and brings in the team of Paris AI lab Kinetix to build world models for robotics.

Launches Media Router, which picks an image, video or audio model — its own or a rival's — for each request on its Runway Dev developer platform, a move toward being a one-stop shop as its own video models no longer lead independent rankings.

Lionsgate takes an undisclosed equity stake and expands its partnership, with the studio and Runway co-developing a slate of projects starting with a short-form series drawing on some of Lionsgate's existing film and TV properties.

Names co-founder Anastasis Germanidis co-CEO alongside Cristóbal Valenzuela and fills out its executive team with a new CTO, COO, chief people officer and chief creative officer.

YouTube creator David Gardner files a proposed class action, one of three such suits filed in New York and California federal courts within about ten days, alleging Runway got around YouTube's protections to download videos for AI training; Runway was already a defendant in the artists' copyright case Andersen v. Stability AI.

Raises $315 million led by General Atlantic, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Adobe Ventures and Fidelity, at a reported $5.3 billion valuation, up from a reported $3 billion-plus in April 2025, to fund world-model work.

Releases GWM-1, its first "world model" for robotics training, explorable virtual worlds and AI avatars, shortly after its Gen-4.5 video model ranked ahead of Google's and OpenAI's on the Video Arena leaderboard.