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Runway Characters

A real-time video agent API that lets you build fully custom conversational characters. These video agents can have any appearance and any visual style, with full control over voice, personality, knowledge and actions.

Built on our recently launched world model, GWM-1, Characters lets you generate expressive digital personas from a single image, with zero fine-tuning required.
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Introducing GWM-1

GWM-1: our state-of-the-art General World Model, built to simulate reality in real time. Interactive, controllable and general-purpose.

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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Gen-4.5: A new frontier for video generation.

Runway Gen-4.5 is the world's top-rated video model, offering unprecedented visual fidelity and creative control. It produces cinematic and highly realistic outputs while providing limitless creative freedom and precise control over every aspect of generation.
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