Runway's Solaris Renders Websites as Live Video With No Code Underneath
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of September 1st, 2026. Runway introduced Solaris in early access, an interface world model that renders websites and apps as live video with every frame drawn in real time as you click and drag, no code running underneath at all, pairing its Gen-4.5 video model with an LLM that reads each interaction and decides what happens next, and in Runway's own study testers preferred it over pages coded by Claude Opus 5 in 71% of matchups on in-scene behavior, though the system still struggles with text legibility and long session drift. Imperial College…
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