Runway unveils GWM Worlds 2: interactive 720p world model with general action space
c_valenzuelab · x · 2026-09-04
Runway shared new research on GWM Worlds 2, its latest General World Model:
- Generates interactive real-time simulations in continuous 720p at 24fps with 48000 Hz audio, built on its audio-visual foundation model
- The first world model with a general action space, merging navigation, manipulation and human interaction; users define environment, subjects, style, physics and ambience
- Sessions continue from each input with no preset length; steer via text actions to any subject plus continuous camera motion
- Already used to evaluate vision-language models on real-world tasks, and with game developers via a world-prompting format scheduling actions, dialogue, SFX and events
- Team's thesis: at the limit, world models become the RL environments for everything
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