Gen-2

Closed weights Runway March 2023

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
20 March 2023
Authors
Gen-2 authors

What it does

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

Domain
Video
Task
Video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video-to-video

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
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

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

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

Website claims SOTA improvement over Stable Diffusion and Text2Live, paper forthcoming They don't report evaluations on standard benchmarks

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

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

Reference
Gen-2: Generate novel videos with text, images or video clips
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

Gen-2 was published by Runway, in United States of America, in March 2023. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Video, and is recorded as doing video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video-to-video.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Training and provenance

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

Gen-2 — common questions

01

When was Gen-2 released?

Gen-2 was published in March 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

02

What is Gen-2 used for?

Gen-2 works in Video, and is recorded as handling video generation, Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Video-to-video. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

03

What GPU do I need to run Gen-2?

None. Gen-2 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.

04

Is Gen-2 open source?

No. Gen-2 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

05

How many parameters does Gen-2 have?

No parameter count has been published for Gen-2, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

06

Who created Gen-2?

Gen-2 was published by Runway, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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