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Runway confirmed that its top-rated Gen-4.5 model was migrated from Nvidia Hopper to the new Vera Rubin architecture within one day, validating Rubin's backward compatibility for production video workloads.
Video Rebirth secured $80 million in funding backed by AMD Ventures and Hyundai to commercialize its Bach-series video generation model targeting advertising and film production.
Nvidia showcased LTX-2 generating up to 20 seconds of 4K video locally on RTX GPUs with 3x speed gains on RTX 50 Series, positioning local video generation as a viable alternative to cloud APIs.
Google redesigned Flow into a unified workspace absorbing Whisk and ImageFX, letting creators go from concept to finished video without leaving one interface.
Runway says it moved Gen-4.5 from Hopper to Rubin quickly, signaling infra readiness narratives.
Model vendors are fighting to become embedded layers in creator and enterprise toolchains.
On February 20, Runway made third-party models including Kling 3.0, Sora 2 Pro, WAN2.2 Animate, and GPT-Image-1.5 available inside its platform, transforming from a single-model tool into a multi-model marketplace.
Nvidia announced its Rubin platform is in full production, comprising six new chips designed to deliver up to 10x reduction in inference token cost and 4x fewer GPUs needed to train mixture-of-experts models compared to Blackwell.
Fresh WIRED reporting on OpenAI’s io branding reversal reinforced how naming conflicts can spill into launch timelines and user trust.
Google brought Veo 3 into Google Ads Asset Studio for commercial video generation and released 15 new creative templates in the Gemini app, including Civilisation, Metallic, and ASMR styles.
Meta and Nvidia announced a multiyear, multigenerational infrastructure partnership on February 17, with Meta deploying millions of Nvidia GPUs, next-generation Vera Rubin rack-scale systems, and becoming the first customer for standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs.
Runway announced a $315 million Series E at a reported $5.3 billion valuation, with leadership framing the round around scaling world-model infrastructure and enterprise demand.
Voice AI company ElevenLabs closed a $500 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $11 billion and positioning its audio technology as a critical component of the AI video production pipeline.
Adobe became Runway's preferred API creativity partner, giving Firefly users exclusive early access to Gen-4.5 with plans for deeper Creative Cloud integration.
D-ID announced a partnership with Microsoft integrating AI-powered avatars into Azure, Teams, and other Microsoft enterprise software, operating at sub-200ms latency across 120+ languages.
Adobe launched a public beta of its browser-based Firefly video editor featuring text-based editing, camera-motion references, and Topaz-powered 4K upscaling.