Runway Research | Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier for Video Generation

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Gen-3 Alpha is the first of the next generation of foundation models trained by Runway on a new infrastructure built for large-scale multimodal training. It is a major improvement in fidelity, consistency, and motion over Gen-2, and a step towards building General World Models.

All of the videos on this page were generated with Gen-3 Alpha with no modifications.

Trained jointly on videos and images, Gen-3 Alpha will power Runway's Text to Video, Image to Video and Text to Image tools, existing control modes such as Motion Brush, Advanced Camera Controls, Director Mode as well as upcoming tools for more fine-grained control over structure, style, and motion.

Gen-3 Alpha will be released with a new set of safeguards, including our new and improved in-house visual moderation system and C2PA provenance standards.

Fine-grained temporal control

Gen-3 Alpha has been trained with highly descriptive, temporally dense captions, enabling imaginative transitions and precise key-framing of elements in the scene.

Photorealistic Humans

Gen-3 Alpha excels at generating expressive human characters with a wide range of actions, gestures, and emotions, unlocking new storytelling opportunities.

For artists, by artists

Training Gen-3 Alpha was a collaborative effort from a cross-disciplinary team of research scientists, engineers, and artists. It was designed to interpret a wide range of styles and cinematic terminology.

Industry Customization

As part of the family of Gen-3 models, we have been collaborating and partnering with leading entertainment and media organizations to create custom versions of Gen-3. Customization of Gen-3 models allows for more stylistically controlled and consistent characters, and targets specific artistic and narrative requirements, among other features. For companies interested in fine-tuning and custom models, reach out to us using the form in the button below:

Prompt: Over the shoulder shot of a woman running and watching a rocket in the distance.

Prompt: Dragon-toucan walking through the Serengeti.