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Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode in Agent

October 2, 2026

All Plans Agent can now generate with Seedance 2.5 Draft mode, creating fast 480p drafts with post-generation enhancement. Iterate and correct generations faster and cheaper, with Draft mode automatically suggested and easy to toggle on or off.

Ideogram 4.5

October 2, 2026

Paid Plans Ideogram 4.5 is now supported in Runway MCP, bringing its image generation capabilities directly into your MCP workflows.

OpenAI Dots x Runway

October 1, 2026

All Plans Runway is now available in OpenAI's Dots. Brief your dot before bed: it plans the shots, Runway shoots them, and the finished spot is waiting in the morning.

ElevenLabs V4

September 29, 2026

Paid Plans ElevenLabs V4 is now supported in Runway, letting you generate audio with the latest, most expressive ElevenLabs model.

Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode in Runway

September 24, 2026

Runway added Draft mode for Seedance 2.5. Generate faster with fewer credits while exploring ideas, then enhance selected results to full quality.

DaVinci Resolve Plugin

September 23, 2026

Paid Plans Runway is now available directly inside DaVinci Resolve. Bring Runway's tools into your existing edit without switching tabs.

Runway in DaVinci Resolve

September 23, 2026

Runway is now available inside DaVinci Resolve. Editors can access Runway models from the timeline to generate, edit, and upscale video without leaving their project.

Runway MCP on Cursor

September 23, 2026

All Plans Runway MCP is now available on Cursor's Marketplace, making it easy to bring Runway's generative capabilities directly into your Cursor workflow.

Brand Kits in Runway MCP

September 22, 2026

All Plans Agents in Runway MCP can now find your Brand Kits and use those assets as references. Brand Kits are currently read-only via MCP, with creating and editing still done in product.

Runway Launches DIFFUSE for AI-Native Creative Talent

September 22, 2026

Runway launched DIFFUSE, an open platform where AI-native artists, studios, and production companies can showcase portfolios and connect with brands, agencies, and studios looking to hire them.

Expanded Workflows in Runway

September 21, 2026

Runway expanded Workflows with Compositing, Alpha, HDR, Depth Map, and RGB Depth tools, giving creators more ways to build a video pipeline in one place.

Kling Models on Runway MCP

September 18, 2026

Paid Plans Kling O3 4K, Kling 3.0 Standard, Kling O3 Standard, and Kling 3.0 Motion Control are now available on Runway MCP.

Runway MCP for Grok Bot

September 17, 2026

Paid Plans Runway is now available as a plugin in Grok Bot. Sign in with your Runway account to generate images and video directly from a Grok Bot chat.

Enhance Frame Rate

September 17, 2026

Max+ Plans Convert any video, Runway-made or not, to 25, 30, 48, 60, 120 or 59.94 fps, up to 4K and 5 minutes long. Available in the Enhance menu, Tool Mode, Workflows and Agent.

Agent in Asset Comments

September 15, 2026

Enterprise You can now @-mention Agent directly in comments on any asset page. Collaborate and iterate right in context, with Agent's responses forming a clear history of edits for your team.

Real-Time Video Models Animate Sketches as You Draw

September 14, 2026

Runway Labs shared an early experiment with real-time video models: a drawing app that animates sketches as you draw. Under the hood, the video model generates each frame live, turning every idea into motion instantly.

Runway Model Licensing for Bespoke Frontier Models

September 11, 2026

Runway now lets enterprises license state-of-the-art model weights to fine-tune on their own data, self-host on their infrastructure, and commercialize what they create, with white-glove service and Forward Deployed Researchers.

Agent Brand Kits

September 10, 2026

All Plans Agent can now create and edit Brand Kits for you, right in the conversation. Group, describe and reuse assets and text to build a durable creative identity without leaving your session.

GPT-Image 2.5 on Runway

September 9, 2026

GPT-Image 2.5 is now on Runway. Flare is built for faster everyday iteration and exploration, while Sunburst focuses on precision editing and the highest possible fidelity.

Runway Adobe Plugins

September 8, 2026

All Plans Runway is now available directly inside Premiere Pro and After Effects. Bring the full power of Runway into your existing creative workflow without leaving your editor.

Introducing Runway Plugins for Adobe

September 8, 2026

Paid Plans Runway now runs in a panel inside Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Generate images and video with Runway's full model lineup, restyle the footage already on your timeline with Aleph 2 and place every result directly into your comp or sequence, without leaving your edit. Free download for macOS and Windows, works with your existing paid plan and credits.

Introducing Team Plan

September 4, 2026

All Plans Team is a new self-serve plan for small teams that create together in Runway. Every seat adds 6,900 credits a month to one shared pool, and up to nine people work from shared projects in one workspace with 1TB of storage. Comment on generations, share agent skills and connect the Runway Agent to your tools.

Runway Ruby in Tool Mode

August 31, 2026

Paid Plans Ruby is now available as its own model in the Tool Mode model selector, with a dedicated UI. Bring in videos from outside Runway and color-grade them with Ruby.

Introducing Solaris

August 31, 2026

Runway introduced Solaris, the first of its Interface World Models. Instead of code sitting between a design and a running app, one model generates every frame of the interface, and every response to your input, live as you use it: click a button and the model paints what happens next. Runway reports Solaris was preferred 61% of the time on instruction following and 71% on natural behavior against coded interfaces, by its own evaluation. It is not a public product yet: Runway is launching with key partners and taking early-access requests, and says legible text, coherence over long sessions, and screen-reader support are still open problems.

HDR Video Conversion on Runway MCP

August 28, 2026

Max+ Plans Runway MCP now supports upgrading your video content to HDR, wherever your agents are. Choose from HDR10, HLG, or HDR ProRes output formats.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on Runway

August 28, 2026

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is on Runway, alongside the other image and video models it hosts.

Org Config Alerts

August 24, 2026

Enterprise Org admins now see alerts in org settings when workspaces are missing SSO enforcement or lack a low-credit email, with a link to fix each issue directly.

Default SSO for New Workspaces

August 24, 2026

Enterprise Org admins can now set a default SSO configuration that automatically applies to every new workspace created in the org. This removes the need to manually copy SSO settings each time a new workspace is spun up.

Wan 3.0

August 24, 2026

Paid Plans Wan 3.0 is now available in Runway in tool mode and workflows. Generate near state-of-the-art video with audio, using multiple image, video, and audio reference inputs, at 480p, 720p, or 1080p.

Workflow Support in Runway MCP

August 20, 2026

All Plans Agents can now list workflows in your workspace, open one in the web app editor, tweak it, and run it from chat. Built for advanced, re-runnable pipelines you don't want to put together by hand.

Runway Ruby

August 20, 2026

Pro+ Plans Transform any SDR video into true HDR with Runway Ruby, a native color grading model available in Tool Mode, Workflows, and Runway Dev. Convert outputs from any model, first or third party, or your own existing video files, and get updated brightness and color range for professional-grade HDR results.

Seedream 5.0 Pro Layers

August 19, 2026

Paid Plans Split images into layers with a new tool that lets you toggle and transform each layer independently. Ideal for fine-grained image editing and asset extraction.

Compositing Nodes

August 18, 2026

All Plans Compose and blend images and video together with new compositing workflow nodes, now available to all customers.

SD2.5 1080p

August 15, 2026

Paid Plans Seedance 2.5 now generates in 1080p across all surfaces. Get sharper, higher-resolution results wherever you create.

Ideogram 4.0

August 13, 2026

Paid Plans Ideogram's latest image model is now available in Runway MCP as ideogram-4, for text-to-image or remixing from a single reference. It excels at accurate, readable text in designs, with support for ultra-tall 9:21 and ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratios.

Grok Imagine 1.5 Video

August 13, 2026

Paid Plans xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 is now available in Runway MCP as grok-imagine-1.5, supporting text-to-video and image-to-video from any MCP client. Generate 1-15 second clips with native audio, up to 1080p resolution.

Projects + Brand Kits in Agent

August 11, 2026

Enterprise Agent sessions now live inside Projects, so you can start a session directly from a Project or move existing ones in. Your Project's assets and Brand Kits are instantly accessible from inside the session, so you never re-upload logos, product shots or style references.

Seedance 2.5

August 11, 2026

Paid Plans Seedance 2.5 is now available in Runway MCP. Generate up to 30 seconds of video with native audio, using text-to-video, image-to-video, or video-to-video, with first frame, last frame, and reference image controls, all directly from your AI agent.

ProRes / PNG Sequence Export

August 10, 2026

Pro+ Plans Tool Mode and Edit Studio now let you export Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2 generations as ProRes 4444 with PCM audio or a PNG sequence, instead of a compressed MP4. Drop your output straight onto a Resolve or Premiere timeline for a true editorial-grade workflow.

Comments on Assets

August 7, 2026

Enterprise Leave feedback directly on an image or video with the new Comments tab. Pin comments to an exact spot or moment in a video, and @-mention teammates to notify them by email.

Seedance 2.5 on Runway

August 7, 2026

Seedance 2.5 is now on Runway. Build entire worlds full of characters with up to 50 references per generation, create clips up to 30 seconds with full sound and dialogue, then edit and extend them however your story needs.

MiniMax Hailuo 3.0

August 5, 2026

API MiniMax Hailuo 3.0 is now live on Runway Dev. Generate video from text, image, or video, with support for keyframes plus reference images, videos, and audio.

Model Router Routing History

August 3, 2026

Paid Plans Every live routed request is now recorded, so you can see which model your Model Router picked and why. View it in the Activity tab of the dev portal or fetch the same records via the public API, and click any row for the full pipeline breakdown.

MiniMax H3 on Runway

July 30, 2026

MiniMax H3 is now available on Runway. Access it alongside every other frontier model on one platform.

Workflows in Runway Agent

July 24, 2026

Runway introduced Workflows in Runway Agent: build, run, or edit node-based workflows through natural language. Workflows unlock high-quality outputs at scale. Call the /Workflow skill to try it.

Introducing Runway Media Router

July 23, 2026

Runway introduced Media Router, the first preference-optimized router for generative media. Instead of hand-picking a model for every request, you define what 'best' means once, cost, quality, or latency, and the router selects the right video, image, or audio model for you.

Runway Opens Paris Office

July 6, 2026

Runway announced the opening of its first office in France — a new research hub in Paris anchored by an initial team of ten. Runway called France one of the world's strongest AI ecosystems and is hiring in Paris and across Europe.

Agent Skills

July 2, 2026

Runway introduced Agent Skills — build an ad campaign, create a commercial, localize your ads, and more with a simple command. Type /, choose a Skill, and Agent gets to work. Scale your marketing on command.

Gemini Omni Flash in Runway

July 1, 2026

Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni Flash, now in Runway — start with a prompt, image, or video and create anything you can imagine. Get started or ask Agent to use Omni.

Nano Banana 2 Lite in Runway

July 1, 2026

Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in Runway — create images at warp speed without compromising on quality. Get started or ask Agent to use Nano Banana 2 Lite.

Runway × Bertelsmann Partnership

July 1, 2026

Runway announced a creative partnership with Bertelsmann, bringing Runway's AI creative tools to one of the world's largest media companies.

Seed Audio 1.0

June 29, 2026

Seed Audio 1.0 is now available on Runway for all paid plans — generate up to 120 seconds of dynamic speech, sound design, and music from simple text prompts.

Localize Ads Recipe on the Runway API

June 27, 2026

Localize Ads is now available as a Recipe via the Runway API — translate static ads and graphic assets into other languages with a single API call.

Introducing Agent 2.0

June 25, 2026

Runway Agent 2.0 turns a simple prompt into fully realized marketing briefs and campaign assets, analyzes performance data to improve your creative, and scales it across platforms, formats, and markets.

Localize Ads — One Image, Any Language

June 24, 2026

You can now localize ads in Runway — input a single ad image and get a version for every market in any language, all with a single click.

Recipes on the Runway API

June 21, 2026

New on the Runway API: Recipes — drop production-ready generative media features into your platform with one API call. Runway-built endpoints with prompting and workflow expertise packaged in: create product ads from an image, swap a product in a video, and more, at scale.

Aleph 2.0 API

June 6, 2026

Aleph 2.0 is now available via the Runway API — bring precise video editing into your apps and products, editing up to 30 seconds at 1080p across multi-shot sequences.

Figma Weave Integration

June 6, 2026

Runway Aleph 2.0 is now in Figma Weave — reframe shots, swap characters, and change backgrounds without starting from scratch.

Cosmos Coalition

June 6, 2026

Runway joins the Cosmos Coalition — a global initiative with NVIDIA and leading AI labs to build and open-source frontier world models for physical AI.

Runway Opens London HQ

June 6, 2026

Runway opens its London headquarters, expanding the team in the UK.

Runway MCP

May 28, 2026

Connect Runway directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, and more. Generate images and videos with Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0, GPT Images 2.0, Kling, and more — right from where you are already working.

Project Luxo

May 27, 2026

Runway introduces Project Luxo — a new initiative exploring how AI-generated video has crossed the uncanny valley. Over the past few weeks, Runway shared a series of short films with Hollywood executives, producers, directors, writers, actors, and reporters.

Aleph 2.0 in the New Edit Studio

May 21, 2026

Aleph 2.0 is here. Edit a single frame in your video, preview the change, and Aleph 2.0 carries that edit across the rest of the clip. Available now in the new Edit Studio on web.

Runway Expands to Japan

May 15, 2026

Runway is opening a Tokyo office and investing $40M in Japan, one of its largest and fastest-growing markets. Enterprise customer base tripled in the last 12 months, with Yamaha, NHN, and SoftBank adopting Runway across marketing, advertising, and creative content.

Meet Runway Agent

May 13, 2026

Your new AI creative partner that helps you ideate and execute fully finished, sound-designed, and edited videos — all with just a simple conversation. From ads to shorts to social content, Runway Agent makes it easy to make more of what you need. Available on the web today.

How We Built Runway Characters

May 5, 2026

Runway shared the technical breakdown of how it built Runway Characters: real-time conversational video agents that turn one image into an expressive video character streaming in HD at 24fps, with just 1.75s of end-to-end latency.

GPT Image 2 on Runway

April 25, 2026

GPT Image 2 is now available on Runway. If you can dream it, you can see it — down to the last detail.

Seedance 2.0 on Runway iOS App

April 18, 2026

Seedance 2.0 is now available in the Runway iOS app. First-time subscribers get up to 50% off 3 months of any plan.

Scripted Characters Now Live

April 18, 2026

You can now bring your Runway Characters to life with a script. Choose or create a Character, type in your script, click Generate.

Seedance 2.0 Now on Runway API

April 18, 2026

Seedance 2.0 is now available via the Runway API.

Seedance 2.0 in 1080p on Runway

April 18, 2026

Seedance 2.0 is now available in 1080p on Runway. More pixels, more detail, more reasons to zoom in.

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