NEW RUNWAY GEN-4.5 AI VIDEO MODEL DETHRONES GOOGLE VEO 3 AND OPENAI SORA 2

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Runway's Gen-4.5 AI video model has topped the Video Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1,247, surpassing Google's Veo 3 and relegating OpenAI's Sora 2 Pro to seventh place. The model runs on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture and excels in physical accuracy, realistic object dynamics, and surface detail rendering. The release coincided with ByteDance's Vidi2 and Tencent's HunyuanVideo-1.5 launches.