# Runway — Towards Instant Video Generation

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-10
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/research/towards-instant-video-generation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/9957-towards-instant-video-generation
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Models affected: Solaris, GWM Worlds 2, Gen-4.5

Runway shared a broader look at its research efforts in real-time video generation, detailing its approach to post-training base foundation models such as Gen-4.5 to achieve causal, autoregressive generation with streaming outputs. The company described a two-stage distillation process—off-policy then on-policy—to speed up generation and reduce error accumulation, and noted that real-time generation moves the compute bottleneck from training to inference.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/research/towards-instant-video-generation:

> Today, we’re sharing a broader look at our research efforts in real-time video generation.

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