TechStuff The Next 8 Months in AI Video Will Change Film Forever - The Story
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Feb 18, 2026 
Cristóbal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway who helped bring AI video tools to Hollywood. He talks about how AI media advanced rapidly, why the next eight months could be transformative, how studios and artists are adapting, and how video and world models could train robots and become personal simulators for many industries.
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Festival Shows AI Democratizing Film
- Cristóbal built a film festival to celebrate filmmakers using AI and lower barriers to entry.
- Submissions grew from about 100 to thousands, showing rapid democratization of filmmaking.
Try Before You Criticize
- Explore and use AI personally before criticizing it to gain context and nuance.
- Experience the tools directly to understand their creative potential.
Models Learn Like Viewers Do
- Models learn patterns from aggregated data similar to how humans learn from watching films.
- Pinpointing one stolen idea is misleading because models blend many influences.