The Times Tech Podcast

Runway’s Cristobal Valenzuela: “Pushing AI-generated film past the ’mom threshold’”

May 19, 2023

39:47

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Crystal Ball Valenzuela of Runway

2min

Text to Video: A New Art Form

2min

The Future of AI

3min

Text to Video: A Storyteller's Journey

2min

Synthetic Media: The Future of Art

3min

How Lux and Joshua Wolf Found Crazy Investors to Build Their Startup

2min

The Impact of Diffusion on Video and Image Generation

3min

The Importance of Modeling Diffusion

2min

10.

The Evolution of VFX

3min

11.

The Rise of AI in the Film Industry

2min

12.

AI and the Future of Film

2min

13.

The Zero Cost Bullshit Problem

2min

14.

The Road Map to Stability AI

2min

15.

How to Create a Dataset That Doesn't Even Exist

2min

16.

How I Learned to Be an Entrepreneur

2min

17.

How to Get People to Join Your Company

2min

18.

The King's Hands: The 40 Year Story of Ireland's Most Feared Crime Family

2min

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of Runway, to talk about using AI to edit and create videos (3:00), starting out at art school (6:50), quitting his job and starting the company in 2018 (8:30), his art career (9:30), rushing to raise money before his visa ran out (14:10), the critical breakthroughs (16:45), what “diffusion” is (18:30), the future of film (21:00), zero-cost content (28:30), coming to America from Chile (33:00), and the challenge of recruiting people (36:20).

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