Runway Just Let You Send an AI Clone to Your Zoom Calls - Characters Join Meetings Live

Runway has expanded its Characters platform to allow AI avatars to join live video calls autonomously. The feature works across major platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, requiring users to simply paste a meeting link for their AI character to attend. The Characters platform, originally launched in March, uses Runway's GWM-1 world model to create photorealistic or animated digital people from a single image. These avatars demonstrate full conversational expressiveness, speaking, listening, and responding in real-time during video calls. Users receive complete transcripts of conversations afterwards for follow-up action. The setup process is deliberately straightforward: users select or create a character, paste their meeting link, and click join. The AI handles the entire conversation independently, making it particularly suited for customer support, sales demonstrations, and onboarding calls where consistent availability matters more than human presence. For enterprise teams already using Runway's developer platform, this capability integrates directly into existing workflows. The technology raises questions about meeting authenticity and whether participants will care about interacting with generated faces, or potentially prefer them during lengthy meeting schedules.