--- title: Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris... description: Runway unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls Interface World Models, which generates a software interface frame by frame in real time... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/runway-wants-to-generate-software-as-you-use-it-solaris-is-its-first-step--uutqpzerp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step. | daily.dev og:description: Runway unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls Interface World Models, which generates a software interface frame by frame in real time... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/runway-wants-to-generate-software-as-you-use-it-solaris-is-its-first-step--uutqpzerp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UUTQpZERp.png og:image:alt: Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step. 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 wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Runway unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls Interface World Models, which generates a software interface frame by frame in real time instead of relying on pre-coded designs and interactions. Built on Runway's Gen-4.5 video model and paired with a language model for reasoning, Solaris renders visuals directly in response to user clicks and drags, eliminating the design-to-code translation step. Runway's evaluations claim Solaris preserved more visual fidelity than multimodal models reconstructing interfaces from screenshots, and that users preferred its responsiveness over a coded interface driven by Claude Opus 5 in 61-71% of comparisons. Runway is opening early access while working with partners on a public launch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Runway's Solaris model and how does it generate interfaces? Solaris is a real-time interactive model from Runway that generates a software interface frame by frame instead of relying on pre-coded UI elements. Built on Runway's Gen-4.5 video generation model, it learns from user clicks, drags, and interactions to determine what to render next, effectively making the generated image itself the application rather than a translation of design into code. _daily.dev keeps developers current on emerging generative interface approaches like Solaris as the space evolves._ ### How did Runway's Solaris compare to a coded interface built with Claude Opus 5? Across nearly 7,500 pairwise judgments and 30 interaction examples, 250 participants preferred Solaris over a coded interface powered by Claude Opus 5 for better instruction adherence in 61% of comparisons and for more natural in-scene behavior in 71% of comparisons, according to Runway's own user study evaluating generated versus coded interfaces. _developers weighing generative versus coded UI approaches can track comparisons like this on daily.dev._ ### What are the main technical challenges facing AI-generated interfaces like Runway's Solaris? Runway identifies keeping text stable and legible as a top challenge, alongside maintaining visual coherence over long user sessions, grounding generation in richer verified context, and integrating generated interfaces with the rest of the software stack. These issues mirror obstacles seen in earlier image and video generation models before they matured. _engineers evaluating generative UI feasibility can follow how these challenges are addressed on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#human-computer-interaction](https://daily.dev/tags/human-computer-interaction), [#world-models](https://daily.dev/tags/world-models) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/runway-wants-to-generate-software-as-you-use-it-solaris-is-its-first-step--uutqpzerp) ```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":"TechArticle","headline":"Runway wants to generate software as you use it. 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