Runway turns GWM-1 into a real-time character product surface
Runway said its new Characters system is built on GWM-1 and made the real-time conversational video agent available through the Runway API plus web and mobile apps.
Runway moved GWM-1 from a research framing into a concrete product surface through Characters, with rollout language tied to the Runway API plus web and mobile apps.
Why visitors should care
This is a source-backed product signal for the avatar branch of world models, not just another video-model demo. It gives GWM-1 a clearer deployed surface while preserving an important editorial boundary: Characters shows low-latency conversational agents and identity persistence, but it is not the same thing as an open-ended explorable world platform.
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Product
Runway moved GWM-1 from a research framing into a concrete product surface through Characters, with rollout language tied to the Runway API plus web and mobile apps.
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Official product update
The clearest public deployment signal is the character-agent surface, not a general-purpose explorable world tool.
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