Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- September 25, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 36m
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- Last updated
- Sep 30, 2026
Discusses Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview that “tur…
Summary
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…
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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