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What is Runway AI and what is it used for?

Runway is an AI video company, with offices from New York to Tokyo, whose web and phone apps make and edit video from text, images and footage. Its own Gen-4.5 model generates clips, Aleph changes footage you already have (adding or removing objects, changing the angle, the style or the light), and the same account also runs Kling 4.0 and Seedance 2.5, plus image, voice and music generation. Filmmakers, ad teams and creators use it for shots they could not film. It is free to try with 125 one-time credits; Standard is $12 a month billed yearly for 625 credits, about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5.

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