The Next 8 Months in AI Video Will Change Film Forever - The Story
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Cristóbal Valenzuela co-founded Runway to rethink how movies are made, and now his technology is spreading across Hollywood. Cristóbal sits down with Oz to discuss how far AI media tools have come in just the past six years, and why the next leap forward could happen even faster than anyone expects. He also addresses many artists' AI fears, by saying that film has always evolved alongside technological breakthroughs and that AI is simply the next chapter in that long history. And finally, Cristóbal and Oz explore Runway's next frontier after Hollywood and why video models might be the key to training humanoid robots.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Osvaloshan and this is the story. |
| 0:23.6 | A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Web Summit in Doha, Qatar, and I had the opportunity |
| 0:29.6 | to speak with someone who is central to Hollywood's AI transformation, one of the most |
| 0:34.6 | controversial and to some frightening topics facing the industry. |
| 0:39.7 | Christabal Valenzuela is the co-founder and CEO of Runway, |
| 0:44.0 | which is best known for developing a very powerful AI video generator, |
| 0:48.6 | along with other tools for film production that are actually used by professionals in the industry. |
| 0:54.5 | Its software has been used in the Oscar winner, Everything Everywhere, all at once, on the |
| 0:59.1 | late show, by Madonna, and runway has partnerships with everyone from Disney, Lionsgate, and AMC, |
| 1:05.6 | to Adobe and Invidia. |
| 1:08.2 | At runway, Christabel is hoping to transform more than just movies. |
| 1:12.6 | We're going to get to a point where you can generate anything you want, literally. |
| 1:15.6 | You can create media as fast as you can think of. |
| 1:18.6 | And when I mean media, I think most people think about like films and ads, because that's what we imagine media to be. |
| 1:24.6 | But we're going deeper than that. |
| 1:26.6 | These are pixels on a screen. |
| 1:28.5 | Every screen that you see in the world has pixels, |
| 1:31.5 | and they're going to get to a point where you can simulate all those pixels, |
| 1:35.0 | and those are going to be pixels that are coming from a model. |
| 1:38.8 | Cristobal thinks runway could improve gaming, education, robotics. |
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