Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
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Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 20261 hr 36 min
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Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview that “turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulation.” Runway calls this an “autoregressive diffusion” model; with autoregressive describing how it generates over time. One new feature in particular caught our eye: WorldPrompt, a proposed input format for specifying a generated world and the actions within it. It allows you to fix some aspects of a simulated environment — including the first frame — and then create a series of timestamped events. The events, or actions, can even be prompted in real-time. To understan...

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OK, we're here with Anastasis from Runway, with me and Vibhu in the studio. Welcome. Good to be here.

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Congrats on all your success and progress with Runway, your opening offices all over the world. Did you envision this when you first started out? Not quite.

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I think even when we started, we had this idea that it was more a matter of when, not if. We were seeing the early generative models of 2016, 2017 and just extrapolating.

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