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Runway Just Solved AI Video's Biggest Problem

Runway Just Solved AI Video's Biggest Problem

AI Breakfast
April 02, 2025

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, April 2nd.

On this day in tech history: 1987: IBM introduced the Personal System/2 (PS/2), a line of personal computers that set new standards for PCs. The PS/2 brought innovations like the PS/2 port for keyboards and mice, which became widely adopted in the industry and influenced PC design for years to come.

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Runway Gen-4 Video
OpenAI’s Image Generator Goes Free
Luma Lab’s Camera Control For AI Video
4 New AI Tools
Latest AI Research Papers

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Today’s trending AI news stories

Runway Gen-4 solves AI video's biggest problem: character consistency across scenes

Runway AI has launched its Gen-4 video generation model, offering a significant breakthrough in maintaining character and scene consistency across multiple shots. Unlike previous AI video systems, Gen-4 creates continuous visual narratives by preserving objects, characters, and styles throughout various angles and lighting conditions. This model tackles a major flaw in AI video production, ensuring that characters and settings remain consistent in every frame which is a crucial factor for believable storytelling.

Available to paid subscribers and enterprise clients, Gen-4 uses reference images combined with text prompts to generate high-quality, realistic motion in video clips. Runway has demonstrated this model through short films, such as “New York is a Zoo,” showcasing consistent visual effects. As the company pushes forward with a complete digital production pipeline, the release of Gen-4 marks a pivotal moment in AI filmmaking. Read more.

OpenAI's Image Generator Goes Free, $300B Valuation Secured, and Open-Weight Model on the Horizon

OpenAI has made ChatGPT’s latest image generation tool available for free, following an initial delay. CEO Sam Altman confirmed the tool’s availability to free-tier users, albeit with unspecified limits. He also warned that capacity constraints will delay upcoming product releases, citing overwhelming demand. The GPT-4o-powered model, known for Studio Ghibli-style recreations, was postponed after ChatGPT gained a million users in an hour.

y'all are not ready for images v2...
— Sam Altman (@sama)
11:04 PM • Apr 1, 2025

ChatGPT’s subscriber now exceeds 20 million paying users—a 4.5 million surge since last year. This translates to an estimated $415 million in monthly revenue, setting OpenAI on track for an enviable $12.7 billion in annual earnings. The company has also just wrapped up a $40 billion funding, the largest private tech deal on record, led by SoftBank, with Microsoft and others in tow. But SoftBank’s hefty $30 billion stake is contingent on OpenAI hitting its for-profit target by year’s end.

OpenAI’s next move is to release an open-weight AI model—its first since GPT-2. It’s a strategic counterpunch to Meta’s Llama, which imposes deployment limits. They are currently gathering feedback through global developer sessions to refine this open model. It has also launched a free learning platform for AI skills with OpenAI Academy.

we will not do anything silly like saying that you cant use our open model if your service has more than 700 million monthly active users.
we want everyone to use it!
— Sam Altman (@sama)
11:06 PM • Mar 31, 2025

However, OpenAI is no stranger to controversy. A recent report claims its GPT-4o model was trained on O'Reilly’s paywalled books without consent, a move that’s drawing further scrutiny and could ignite new legal fires. With all eyes on its next steps, the company continues to balance progress with the growing legal and ethical tightrope it’s walking. Read more.

Luma Labs released Camera Motion Concepts for its Ray2 video model with 20+ precision-tuned camera motions

Luma Labs introduces Camera Motion Concepts for its Ray2 video model. This innovation allows users to direct precise, cinematic camera movements via natural language commands, utilizing over 20 precision-tuned motions. The feature, now available on Dream Machine, employs "Concepts," a novel method for teaching generative models new controls from minimal examples.

Introducing #Ray2 Camera Motion Concepts in #DreamMachine — 20+ precision-tuned camera motions designed for smooth cinematic control and great reliability. Concepts compose with each other making hundreds of impossible new camera moves possible. Available now.
— Luma AI (@LumaLabsAI)
4:59 PM • Mar 31, 2025

Unlike LoRA or finetuning, Concepts enable composition of multiple motions without degrading Ray2's core quality. This facilitates unique, combinatorial camera moves, including those physically impossible. The technology maintains Ray2’s high-fidelity output and stylistic versatility. Read more.

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