With GWM-1 family of “world models,” Runway shows ambitions beyond Hollywood

Even using the word “general” has an air of aspiration to it. You would expect a general world model to be, well, one model—but in this case, we’re looking at three distinct, post-trained models. That caveats the general-ness a bit, but Runway says that it’s “working toward unifying many different domains and action spaces under a single base world model.”

A competitive field

And that brings us to another important consideration: With GWM-1, Runway is entering a…