Runway opens its Praxis-1 robot model to everyone
The video AI company released the weights and code of its robot model under the Apache 2.0 licence. Runway says it beats FLUX 3 Action on NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 test. Runway ran the tests itself, and the model ranks fifth on the test’s overall list.
Runway released Praxis-1 with open weights on November 11. The 27-billion-parameter model learns from video how objects move, then turns camera images and text instructions into robot movements. Runway first showed it in September, but only to selected partners.
Robot data is slow and costly to collect, while ordinary video is everywhere. Runway bets that video can teach robots most of what they need. An open model lets any lab test that bet. For now, the results are Runway’s own, and most tests ran in simulation.