# Runway — Introducing Praxis-1

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-30T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/15447-introducing-praxis-1
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Praxis-1
- License: open weights

Runway announced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that uses video pretraining to control robots. The model is being tested with early partners and will be released publicly in the coming months. Runway will ship it with open weights rather than as a closed model.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/research/introducing-praxis-1:

> Today we're announcing Praxis-1 , our first open-weight world action model. It's built on the same large-scale video pretraining behind our general world models.

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