Generating the future of art & entertainment

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

Runway is an applied AI research company shaping the next era of art, entertainment & human creativity. Chris sat down with Runway co-founder / CTO, Anastasis Germanidis, to discuss their rise and how it’s defining the future of the creative landscape with its text & image to video models. We hope you find Anastasis’s founder story as inspiring as Chris did.

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Featuring:

• Anastasis Germanidis – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Runway | Website
• Runway | Twitter
• Runway | AI Film Festival (AIFF)
• Runway | Gen-2
• Runway | Gen48

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Capitole

1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Runway's Anastasis Germanidis (00:00:43)

3. Prior technology interests (00:04:41)

4. The initial vision (00:06:33)

5. A need to explore (00:08:21)

6. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:12:23)

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7. Becoming an entrepreneur (00:13:36)

8. Bringing the vision to life (00:15:53)

9. Navigating funding and customers (00:18:26)

10. Early adoption of gen AI (00:21:30)

11. Learning from early challenges (00:23:26)

12. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:26:15)

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13. Runway today (00:28:06)

14. Other players in the AI arms race (00:30:41)

15. Building long-term tools (00:33:59)

16. Future of video generation (00:35:57)

17. Guidance for young listeners (00:38:35)

18. Thanks for joining us! (00:40:54)

19. Outro (00:41:19)