Flaviu Radulescu & Ioana Hreninciuc of Runware on Affordable AI

Flaviu Radulescu and Ioana Hreninciuc are the co-founders of Runware, an AI infrastructure company focused on making high-performance generative media dramatically more affordable and accessible for developers and product teams worldwide. Drawing on over two decades of Flaviu’s experience building bare-metal data clusters and custom hardware, Runware designs its own GPU and networking systems plus the Sonic Inference Engine, enabling up to 10x cost savings and order‑of‑magnitude speedups for visual and media AI workloads. As business and product leader, Ioana has helped steer Runware from an early image-generation prototype through major funding rounds and into a scalable AI media platform, partnering with leading investors and powering billions of creations while keeping AI inference costs low enough for companies of all sizes.Topics:

• Why “affordable AI” is a defensible wedge in the crowded AI infra market
• How Runware achieved 5–10x cost and speed gains by designing its own hardware + inference stack
• The future of generative media: real-time, multimodal, and as cheap as API calls today

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