# Runway — Introducing Runway GWM-1

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2025-12-11T16:22:35.195000+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://runway.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7900-introducing-runway-gwm-1
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Models affected: GWM-1, GWM Worlds, GWM Avatars, GWM Robotics

Runway announced GWM-1, its first general world model family built on Gen-4.5. The model generates frames autoregressively in real time and can be controlled interactively with actions. It comes in three variants: GWM Worlds for explorable environments, GWM Avatars for conversational characters, and GWM Robotics for robotic manipulation.

## Evidence

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

> Today, we're announcing GWM-1—our first general world model family. ... GWM-1 comes in three variants: GWM Worlds for explorable environments, GWM Avatars for conversational characters, and GWM Robotics for robotic manipulation.

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