GWM-1 (General World Model)

GWM-1 is Runway's first general world model. It makes frame-by-frame, action-conditioned real-time video in three variants, Worlds, Robotics and Avatars.

Generates up to 2 minutes of 720p video in real time, conditioned on camera pose, events, robot commands or speech. GWM Worlds simulates explorable environments, GWM Robotics generates synthetic data and policy evaluation (Python SDK), GWM Avatars drives conversational characters.

Date
Thursday 11 December 2025
Lab
Runway
Kind
model
Access
research preview

Worlds and Avatars via API/web; Robotics via SDK early access.

Sources

  1. runway.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1

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