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Runway Gen-4.5 Drops: Weight, Dust, Light—All Real

Runway Gen-4.5 crowned #1 video AI: cinema-grade realism, flawless physics, 1247 ELO. Text-to-video reborn—create now.

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Meng Li
Dec 02, 2025
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Finally, the mysterious model Whisper Thunder (aka) David, which topped the Artificial Analysis leaderboard a few days ago, has revealed its true identity.

It is Runway’s latest release: Gen-4.5.

As the current SOTA video model, Gen-4.5 has set new industry standards in motion quality, prompt adherence, and visual realism for video generation.

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Additionally, as the world’s highest-rated video generation model, Runway Gen-4.5’s ELO Score surpasses Veo 3/3.1, Kling 2.5, and Sora 2 Pro, featuring unprecedented visual realism and creative control capabilities.

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The top ten models on Artificial Analysis’s latest video leaderboard are as follows:

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