Runway Reveals Lineup for Upcoming AI Summit

Runway has named the speakers for one of its AI Summit sessions, pulling in researchers from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and Wayve to discuss grounding AI systems in physical reality.

Runway is a week away from holding its AI Summit, and the company has started rolling out details on what attendees can expect from the event's programming. In a post on X, Runway confirmed a session titled "Grounding Intelligence in the Physical World," which will bring together speakers from three organizations with very different vantage points on AI research. The panel includes Ming-Yu Liu of Nvidia, Jon Barron from Google DeepMind, and Alex Toshev from Wayve. The pairing suggests a session focused less on generative video output itself and more on the underlying challenge of building AI systems that understand and interact with real-world physics — a topic increasingly relevant as video generation tools push toward more realistic motion, spatial consistency, and physical plausibility. Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and Wayve each approach that problem from distinct angles, spanning graphics and simulation research, foundational AI modeling, and autonomous vehicle systems, respectively. Bringing representatives from those three organizations onto a single stage points to Runway's interest in framing physical-world grounding as a cross-industry problem rather than one confined to video generation alone. Runway shared the announcement directly on its official X account, with the summit now just seven days out. The company has not yet detailed the rest of its session lineup, though more announcements are likely as the event date approaches.