Runway

Overview

Runway is a research company building generative video and audio models, publishing a line it calls General World Models (GWM). This page was created on 2026-09-26 on the capture of GWM Worlds 2, and its contents are limited to what that release and its coverage stated (source).

Runway's founding, funding, headcount and its wider product line were not established on the run that created this page: runway.com answers EGRESS_BLOCKED from this pipeline's sandbox, so no first-party page was read.

This page exists because of a miss, and the miss is the reason to keep it. GWM Worlds 2 was announced 2026-09-03 and captured here 2026-09-26 — day +23. The cause is not a failed fetch: Runway is not in sources.yaml, in any tier, so nothing polled it and nothing reported it absent. That is the same shape as the Anthropic Alignment Science gap recorded on 2026-07-31 — a source that produces no files produces no errors — except that here the source was never listed at all. sources.yaml is a manual file by this repo's own automation boundary, so this run does not edit it; it is raised for the user in the brief.

Key People

unknown — no named individual appeared in any source read on the run that created this page.

Models & Products

• GWM Worlds 2 — GWM Worlds 2, research preview, announced 2026-09-03. Real-time interactive world model, 720p at 24 fps with 48 kHz audio.
• GWM Worlds — the predecessor GWM Worlds 2 is stated to build on. No wiki page, and none is created: this wiki holds no release document for it, only its existence named inside a later one.
• Solaris — named in one pass as an "interface world model for live UIs". Nothing further was established — no date, no spec, no availability — so it is recorded here as a one-off mention rather than as a page.

Recent Activity

• 2026-09-03: GWM Worlds 2 announced — a world model you play rather than watch. Runway published research on GWM Worlds 2, a research preview General World Model generating interactive real-time simulations in continuous 720p video at 24 fps with 48,000 Hz audio, built on Runway's foundational audio-visual generation model and not restricted to a fixed duration. It introduces WorldPrompt, an input format that fixes elements of a simulated environment — including the first frame — and then accepts timestamped events that can be issued while generation runs. Stated recipe: fine-tune a base video model to the WorldPrompt format, post-train for autoregressive generation, distil for real-time speed. Availability is contact-only and no pricing or general release date has been announced. Not established: no benchmark of any kind, no parameter count, no base model name, no latency figure beyond "real-time", no licence, no weights, and no safety, watermarking or provenance statement for a model that emits continuous video and audio of arbitrary length → World Models (source) (Runway)

Strategic Position

TBD — nothing read on the run that created this page speaks to Runway's positioning relative to other labs. What can be said from the single release captured is narrow and is stated on GWM Worlds 2 rather than repeated here: Runway is shipping a world model as an interactive stream under live control, where the world-model work this wiki otherwise holds — Cosmos-H-Dreams, Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B — is aimed at training or evaluating an embodied policy.

Related

• World Models — the category this release belongs to
• Embodied Agents — the adjacent use of world models, and the contrast above