# Runway — Building Interactive AI Characters Responsibly

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-03-12T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://runway.com/news/safety/building-interactive-ai-characters-responsibly
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7892-building-interactive-ai-characters-responsibly
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Models affected: GWM-1

Runway launched Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API for building custom conversational characters from a single image. The API is built on the company's World Model, GWM-1. Runway also detailed safety restrictions including filters on avatars featuring children, public figures, or IP-protected content.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/safety/building-interactive-ai-characters-responsibly:

> Earlier this week, we launched Runway Characters – a real-time video agent API that lets you build fully custom conversational characters from a single image. Characters is built on our recently launched World Model, GWM-1 , and represents a new type of real-time interaction with AI.

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