Baseten to host Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models in dedicated environments

What the partnership covers

Runway builds models that generate and edit cinematic video using text, images, audio and existing footage. Under the partnership announced by Baseten on October 14, 2026, Runway is making its proprietary video models available for dedicated deployment on Baseten's platform.

Until now, Baseten says, Runway offered these models through Runway Creative, its platform for generating and editing video, images and audio, and Runway Dev, its API platform for developers. The Baseten route adds a way to run them in an isolated environment.

The two models

Gen-4.5 turns text and image inputs into video. Baseten says it supports detailed scene direction, camera movement and a range of visual styles. Suggested uses include visualizing a storyboard, animating a product image, creating cinematic B-roll, or adapting a campaign concept into multiple variations.

Aleph 2.0 is meant to complement Gen-4.5 by modifying footage that already exists, whether generated or real. Starting from a prompt or an edited keyframe, a user can change a specific element or restyle a scene, then carry that edit across relevant shots while preserving the surrounding details. According to the source, the model supports multi-scene videos up to 30 seconds at 1080p.

How deployment works

Customers license Runway model weights directly from Runway and deploy them in a secure, single-tenant environment on Baseten. Each deployment runs in an isolated workload plane with dedicated GPU resources, while Baseten manages the control plane and underlying infrastructure. Runway and Baseten support each deployment together, from model customization through production serving.

• Security and compliance: Compute and scheduling are isolated to the customer's organization. Baseten's access to Runway's model weights is governed by a distribution agreement, and deployments run on infrastructure covered by Baseten's SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance programs.
• Fine-tuning: Customers can fine-tune Runway models on their own data so outputs reflect their brand, canon and content guidelines. The direct license with Runway governs this work, while Baseten provides the infrastructure to run the fine-tuning and deploy the resulting model.
• Dedicated capacity: Reserved GPU capacity for video-generation workloads, with autoscaling to handle spikes in demand.

What it means for enterprise teams

Baseten notes that Amazon, Robinhood, Dolce & Gabbana and Microsoft are among the enterprise creative teams already using Runway in production. The company also says it backs dedicated deployments with a 99.99% uptime SLA.

For organizations that need video generation under stricter isolation, the arrangement offers a path to run Runway's models on dedicated hardware, tuned to their own content, with compliance coverage the source describes as SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA. The source does not give pricing or licensing terms.