Runway Gen-4.5

Closed weights Runway December 2025

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Runway
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
1 December 2025

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Video
Task
Video generation

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Hosted access (no API)

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Likely

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Introducing Runway Gen-4.5: A new frontier for video generation.
Last updated
8 April 2026

What the numbers mean

About this model

Runway Gen-4.5 was published by Runway, in the country recorded as United States of America, during December 2025. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Video, and is recorded as performing the task of video generation.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Runway Gen-4.5 — common questions

01

Runway Gen-4.5— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

Runway Gen-4.5— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

03

Runway Gen-4.5— who created it?

It was published by Runway, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

04

Runway Gen-4.5— when was it released?

It was published in December 2025.

05

Runway Gen-4.5— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Video, and is recorded as handling the task of video generation. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

Runway Gen-4.5— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 8 April 2026

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