--- title: Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a world model that generates... description: Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview of an autoregressive diffusion model that generates interactive virtual worlds in real time, including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/runway-s-gwm-worlds-2-is-a-world-model-that-generates-interactive-environments-in-real-time-at-720p--x8rkvvrxp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a world model that generates interactive environments in real time at 720p, 24 fps, with 48 kHz audio. Users steer the world with text actions and camera motion, and sessions continue from each input with no preset length. | daily.dev og:description: Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview of an autoregressive diffusion model that generates interactive virtual worlds in real time, including... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/runway-s-gwm-worlds-2-is-a-world-model-that-generates-interactive-environments-in-real-time-at-720p--x8rkvvrxp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/x8rkvvrXP.png og:image:alt: Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a world model that generates interactive environments in real time at 720p, 24 fps, with 48 kHz audio. Users steer the world with text actions and camera motion, and sessions continue from each input with no preset length. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a world model that generates interactive environments in real time at 720p, 24 fps, with 48 kHz audio. Users steer the world with text actions and camera motion, and sessions continue from each input with no preset length. **[ml-research](https://daily.dev/sources/mlresearch)** · [@andrewma](https://daily.dev/andrewma) · 10 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview of an autoregressive diffusion model that generates interactive virtual worlds in real time, including continuous 720p video at 24 fps and synchronized audio at 48,000 Hz. Building on the earlier GWM Worlds model from December, the new version adds generated audio, richer subject and scene control, and a new input format called WorldPrompt, which separates persistent world context (scene, subjects, rules, first frame) from a timestamped stream of text-based actions. The model supports first- and third-person navigation, independent camera and subject control, multi-character dialogue with generated speech, agentic control for training and evaluating AI agents, multiplayer sessions via LiveKit, and LLM-assisted world authoring from simple text prompts. Limitations include fidelity trade-offs for speed, degraded quality on rapid camera motion, imperfect long-term memory, and no support for image references beyond the first frame. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@petecapecod** · 4 upvotes > Wow this is just crazy impressive 👏🏻 > > Incredible, can't wait to see what people do with it **@byteoutlaw** · 3 upvotes > Insane! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#world-models](https://daily.dev/tags/world-models) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/runway-s-gwm-worlds-2-is-a-world-model-that-generates-interactive-environments-in-real-time-at-720p--x8rkvvrxp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/runway-s-gwm-worlds-2-is-a-world-model-that-generates-interactive-environments-in-real-time-at-720p--x8rkvvrxp","headline":"Runway's GWM Worlds 2 is a world model that generates interactive environments in real time at 720p, 24 fps, with 48 kHz audio. 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