Runway partners with Modal to power real-time inference for Runway Characters

Runway is partnering with Modal to power real-time inference for Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API built on Runway's GWM-1 world model that generates expressive digital personas from a single image with zero fine-tuning. Modal's serverless platform let Runway move from proof of concept to production in under 30 days, using single-line multi-node GPU clusters with RDMA networking across every region. Characters is available now to developers and businesses at dev.runwayml.com and to consumers at runwayml.com.