World model startup Odyssey secures $310 million in Series B funding, AWS Trainium chips help general physics simulation

Comparative news, according to monitoring, the Universal World Model startup Odyssey announced the completion of Series B financing of US$310 million, with a post-investment valuation of US$1.45 billion. The funding round was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon (Amazon), Google Ventures (GV), AMD Ventures, EQT, and In-Q-Tel (IQT) participating. Additionally, individual investors such as Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean, Y Combinator president Garry Tan, and former Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt have also stepped up. In addition to capital injections, Odyssey has also reached a deep strategic partnership with Amazon AWS. AWS will be Odyssey's cloud service provider of choice, and Odyssey will partner with Amazon Annapurna Labs to fully optimize its world model on the AWS Trainium AI accelerator. The Odyssey team pointed out that the development of the world model is currently at an inflection point similar to GPT-3, and the technology is moving from research to a disruptive foundation. Odyssey was founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke. Unlike traditional generative video or language models, Odyssey focuses on developing generic world models to perform accurate causal and dynamic simulations in virtual or real physical environments through self-developed Odyssey-2 Max, multi-modal world model Starchild-1, and multi-agent interaction system Agora-1. In the future, these technologies will be deeply applied to various fields such as robotics, science, medicine, education, game development, and national defense.