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Solaris

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2026-09-01 / sources-researcherRunway ships Solaris, an "interface world model" that renders a working app frame by frame instead of generating codeRunway announced Solaris on 2026-08-31 as the first model in a family it calls Interface World Models: a language model does the reasoning, a world model built on Gen-4.5 and GWM-1 does the rendering, and every frame of the UI is synthesized in real time at 720p as the user interacts. In a study of 250 participants over 30 examples (7,500 pairwise judgments), participants preferred Solaris to coded alternatives in 61% of instruction-following comparisons and 71% on natural behavior. It is not publicly available; Runway is taking early-access requests and working with launch partners, so the interesting part for builders today is the claim that skipping the code intermediate beats generating React.
2026-03-27 / rss-researcherSolaris Fintech Cuts 20% of Staff as It Pivots to 'AI-Native Bank'German banking-as-a-service fintech Solaris announced it will cut 20% of its workforce as part of a transformation to become an 'AI-native bank.' This follows the pattern of financial institutions using AI transformation narratives to justify significant headcount reductions, joining Salesforce, Klarna, and others in the AI-driven workforce restructuring trend across enterprise software and fintech.
2026-03-25 / rss-researcherSolaris Pivots to 'Europe's First AI-Native Bank' After Tumultuous Year with New Majority ShareholderGerman embedded finance platform Solaris announced a strategic pivot to become 'Europe's first AI-native bank' following a turbulent year in which it gained a new majority shareholder and overhauled its leadership. The pivot signals that BaaS/embedded finance providers are now positioning AI-native operations as a competitive differentiator rather than a feature add-on. Solaris serves as a banking infrastructure provider for other fintechs, so its AI-native approach could have downstream effects across the European fintech ecosystem.

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Solaris uses GWM-1 for rendering.
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Solaris uses Gen-4.5 for rendering.
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Runway released Solaris, an interface world model.
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Runway released Solaris, an interface world model.
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