Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
world model

GWM-1 Characters

Runway avatar/character world model via API and web. One of three separate post-trained GWM-1 models; unification planned.

RunwayRunwayUSAGWM-1Family
Runway
Levelmodel
Classworld model
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released11 Dec 2025
Opennessproprietary
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

finetunesuccessor
Gen-4.5 to GWM-1 Characters: finetune, high confidenceGen-4.5 to GWM-1 Robotics: finetune, high confidenceGen-4.5 to GWM-1 Worlds: finetune, high confidenceGen-4 to Gen-4.5: successor, medium confidenceGen-4Gen-4Runway, Apr 2025Gen-4.5Gen-4.5RunwayGWM-1 CharactersGWM-1 CharactersRunway, Dec 2025GWM-1 RoboticsGWM-1 RoboticsRunway, Dec 2025GWM-1 WorldsGWM-1 WorldsRunway, Dec 2025
RunwayGen-4.5 is the parent (finetune)high confidencepress claim
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

World models (generative interactive environments)produced by

Identity

Developer
Runway
Family
GWM-1
Released
11 Dec 2025 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
autoregressive Autoregressive, built on Gen-4.5; 720p, up to 2 min; conditioned on camera pose, robot commands, audio
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
video, action, audio
Output
video
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
proprietary
Licence
Proprietary sources
Access routes
API, consumer app
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

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

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "GWM-1 Characters", https://aurion.semai.id/models/runway-gwm-1-characters/, records of October 2026.