Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others.

AI company Runway has announced what it calls its first world model, GWM-1. It’s a significant step in a new direction for a company that has made its name primarily on video generation, and it’s part of a wider gold rush to build a new frontier of models as large language models and image and video generation move into a refinement phase, no longer an untapped frontier.

GWM-1 is a blanket term for a trio of autoregression models, each built on top Runway’s Gen-4.5 text-to-video generation model and then post-trained with domain-specific data for different kinds of applications. Here’s what each does.

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