Runway chooses Modal to power real-time inference for Runway Characters

Runway has partnered with Modal to provide real-time inference infrastructure for Runway Characters, an API that enables developers, businesses, and consumers to create customizable conversational video agents with controllable appearance, voice, personality, knowledge, and actions. Built on Runway’s GWM-1 world model, Characters can generate expressive digital personas from a single image without fine-tuning and is already used by organizations across technology, entertainment, advertising, and gaming for applications such as customer support, training, advertising, and immersive virtual worlds. Modal’s serverless GPU platform supports the low-latency, globally distributed, and variable-demand requirements of sustained video conversations, allowing Runway to progress from a proof of concept to production in under 30 days. Its multi-node GPU clusters, RDMA networking, regional routing, and automatic scaling help maintain real-time expressions, lip-sync, and gestures for users worldwide without Runway directly managing regional infrastructure. Runway Characters is now available to developers and businesses through its developer platform and to consumers through Runway’s website.

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