Runway bets video world models beat LLMs

runway is pivoting from filmmaker tools to build world models that learn how the world works rather than just processing human language. co-ceo anastasis germanidis argues that training ai on observational data rather than text will overcome the biases of language models. the company recently launched its first world model and sees this technology as scientific infrastructure to act as a "better scientist" for accelerating discovery in fields like drug research. runway faces competition from google's genie and startups like luma labs in its quest to build a digital twin of the universe.