Claude Opus 5.5 can now create images and videos through Runway
Runway is showing how the new Claude Opus 5.5 can generate images and video using its creative models directly from a Claude conversation.
Claude is an AI assistant made by Anthropic, while Runway is a creative platform specialising in AI-generated and AI-assisted images and video. A connection between the two means creators can now describe the visual content they want inside Claude and have Runway handle the actual media generation without constantly moving between separate applications.
Runway is highlighting that workflow following the release of Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s latest high-end Claude model. The company says creators can connect Runway directly to Claude and use models including Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2 and Kling to produce images and videos from their existing workspace.
The technology connecting them is called MCP, short for Model Context Protocol. Despite the technical name, its job is relatively simple from a user’s point of view. MCP provides a standard way for an AI assistant such as Claude to communicate with another service, in this case allowing Claude to send a creative request to Runway and receive the generated result.
Runway originally launched its MCP connection earlier this year, so the connection itself is not a newly launched product. What is new is the company putting the recently released Claude Opus 5.5 together with its current generation tools and promoting the combination as a creative workflow.
For example, someone developing a short film could discuss an idea with Claude, describe the visual they need and then ask the connected Runway service to generate it. Depending on the creator’s Runway plan, the system can access different image and video models without requiring the user to manually open each model separately.
Runway can also select an appropriate available model for the request, while experienced creators can ask for a specific one. Generations still use Runway credits, so connecting the services does not make the underlying image or video creation free.
The broader development is another sign that AI creative tools are moving away from being isolated websites that require creators to jump from one interface to another. Instead, an AI assistant can increasingly become the place where a project is discussed, planned and then passed to specialist tools for the actual visual work.
That could be particularly interesting for independent filmmakers and digital creators managing several parts of a production themselves. The attraction is not simply generating another AI video, but potentially reducing the number of separate steps needed to move from an idea and written instructions to a visual result.
Claude Opus 5.5 was released by Anthropic on September 22, while Runway is now actively demonstrating how the model can work alongside its generative media platform.
