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This funding round reinforces the ongoing trend of major capital flowing into AI infrastructure and 'world model' development. It underscores the potential for AI to fundamentally reshape how digital and physical worlds are perceived and interacted with, a narrative that increasingly overlaps with metaverse and decentralized computing concepts.

Runway, an AI video startup, has raised $315 million in a Series E funding round led by General Atlantic, bringing its valuation to $5.3 billion, and plans to build AI world models.