Odyssey is an AI research laboratory founded in 2023, focused on developing general world models - causal, multimodal systems designed to understand and simulate real-world dynamics. Its technical work spans world models, causal systems, multimodal systems, video generation, physics simulation, and multi-agent systems. The company's team includes researchers recruited from institutions such as DeepMind, Tesla, Waymo, Meta, Apple, and Wayve, and it is backed by investors including Amazon, GV, AMD, NVIDIA, and Natural Capital.
The company has developed several models. Odyssey-2 is a general-purpose world model that generates interactive video streams in real-time at 20 frames per second. Odyssey-2 Max advances the state-of-the-art in physics accuracy for general world simulation. Starchild-1 is described as the first real-time multimodal world model. Agora-1 is a multi-agent world model that enables multiple participants to share and interact within the same simulated environment.
