Miju LabsWhy they are on the map
Promoted to Co-CEO Feb 2026; long-time research/technical head of Runway's models. source — evidence dated 2026-02
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How Runway buys data
Gen-4.5 (Dec 2025) cited 'significant advances in post-training' and ranked via blind pairwise human preference on the Artificial Analysis arena. 2026 hiring includes 'Research Engineer, Data Foundations' (design multimodal datasets for world models), 'MTS, Data Infrastructure' (billions of rows of multimodal data), and a 'Sr/Staff PM, ML Research'. Past content licensing deals (Getty Images 2023, Lionsgate 2024) show a legal/licensing buying path. No named human-data vendor found.
Co-CEOs (Germanidis, Valenzuela) since Feb 2026, and a CTO (Sindi). Research is led by Research Director Jimei Yang with research leads under him; there are separate Data Foundations and Data Infrastructure groups, plus Runway Studios (in-house creatives) and a Chief Creative Officer.
Known vendors: lmarena (Artificial Analysis arena for public ranking; not a vendor)
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