Runway wants to generate software as you use it. Solaris is its first step.
Runway has launched Solaris, an AI model designed to generate interactive user interfaces in real-time based on user behavior. By bypassing traditional coding, the system allows users to interact directly with generated visual scenes, effectively turning the interface into a dynamic, evolving experience.
Why it matters
This technology represents a potential paradigm shift in software development, moving away from static code toward generative, intent-based user interfaces.
Runway introduced Solaris on Monday, the first model of a new class of AI systems it calls Interface World Models, which aims to do away with the traditional process of translating designs into code and make the visual interface the application itself.
Solaris is a real-time interactive model that generates an interface frame by frame, learning from users’ clicks, drags, and other interactions to determine what to render next. In it, Runway sees an early step towards a new kind of operating layer in which interfaces are generated in real time.
Runway argues that conventional visual interfaces require designers and developers to translate designs into code and define interactions in advance. With Solaris, Runway promises to bypass this step entirely.
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