Odyssey

Odyssey is an AI lab founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, developing general world models — systems that learn physics, dynamics, cause-and-effect and human behaviour from observations of the real world. Such a model is intended as a shared foundation for robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, AI agents and interactive generated environments. Its flagship Odyssey-3 is a foundation world model built as an autoregressive diffusion transformer that controls many physical and virtual systems. The company also develops the multi-agent Agora world model, the PROWL reinforcement-learning framework and the multimodal Starchild model. Its founders previously worked on autonomous vehicles. Odyssey operates from offices in Palo Alto (USA) and London (United Kingdom). In June 2026 it raised $310M in a Series B led by Natural Capital at a $1.45B valuation, with Amazon Web Services becoming its preferred cloud provider.