{"id":"69cfc9c5-fc28-413f-9294-03aa9e809548","name":"Runway","slug":"runway","description":"US generative AI company best known for video models. Sep/Oct 2026: announced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns video pretraining into robot control; early partners include Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra; public open-weight release planned in the coming months.","status":"private","founded":null,"hq":"New York, NY","hqLat":null,"hqLng":null,"hqGeocodedAt":null,"hqAddress":null,"hqPrecision":null,"website":"https://runway.com/","fundingTotal":null,"type":"brain","roles":["brain_provider"],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","heatIndex":0,"lifecycleState":"active","supersededByCompanyId":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1","title":"Introducing Praxis-1","sourceName":"Runway Research","publishedAt":"2026-09-01"},{"url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/runway-introduces-praxis-1-world-action-model-robotics/","title":"Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics","sourceName":"The Robot Report","publishedAt":"2026-10-02"}],"keyFacts":[{"label":"Praxis-1 open-weight world-action model; early partners (company-stated, Sep/Oct 2026)","value":"Company-stated ([company-stated](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1); also [The Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/runway-introduces-praxis-1-world-action-model-robotics/)): Runway announced Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model built on the same large-scale video pretraining behind its general world models. Pitch: less scarce robot teleop demos, more video-to-policy. Early partners named on the research page: Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra, each running Praxis-1 on their own hardware. Public open-weight release planned in the coming months (no exact date). Cap: company research post; partner results are Runway-stated early testing, not independent benchmarks."},{"label":"Web-video pretraining placement error","value":"Runway's Praxis-1 research post reports that after finetuning, web-video pretraining from scratch reached 16.1 cm final placement error versus 16.0 cm for teleop robot video from scratch, with error bars of plus or minus 1 SEM over 93 evaluation pairs, and says differences smaller than a bar are not significant ([Runway](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1))."},{"label":"World-model correlation and early partners","value":"Runway says simulating robot policies inside its world model predicts real-world results with 0.95 correlation, and that early Praxis-1 partners include Noble Machines (bimanual), Standard Bots (6-DoF RO1 arm), and Ultra (mobile base), each running the model on their own hardware ahead of a planned open-weight public release ([Runway](https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1))."}],"aliases":["Runway ML","Runway AI","RunwayAI"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"atsProvider":null,"atsSlug":null,"factoryLocations":null,"manufacturingCapacity":null,"orgType":null,"burnSignal":null,"litigationEvents":null,"insurancePostureDisclosed":null,"unitEconomicsDisclosed":null,"tickerSymbol":null,"stockExchange":null,"secCik":null,"revenueUsd":null,"revenueBasis":null,"revenueAsOf":null,"employeeCount":null,"employeeCountBasis":null,"employeeCountAsOf":null,"marketCapUsd":null,"marketCapAsOf":null,"marketCapSource":null,"createdAt":"2026-10-03T15:58:35.620Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-03T17:24:29.501Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/companies/runway","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/companies/runway","name":"Runway","alternateName":["Runway ML","Runway AI","RunwayAI"],"description":"US generative AI company best known for video models. Sep/Oct 2026: announced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns video pretraining into robot control; early partners include Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra; public open-weight release planned in the coming months.","identifier":"69cfc9c5-fc28-413f-9294-03aa9e809548","address":"New York, NY","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}},"framework_metadata":{"framework_schema_version":"0.1.0","verification_status":"verified","maturity_stage":null,"lifecycle_state":null,"architectural_position":{"cohort":null,"sub_cohorts":[]},"within_cohort_verified_vs_claimed_pair":null,"cap_flags":[],"verification_depth":{"sources_count":2,"primary_source_types":["secondary-trade-publication"]}}}