The world modeling startup Odyssey has raised $310 million in Series B funding, with support from the AWS Trainium chip to power universal physics simulation.

According to DeepBeat monitoring, the universal world model startup Odyssey has announced the completion of a $310 million Series B funding round, with a post-money valuation of $14.5 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, Google Ventures (GV), AMD Ventures, EQT, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Additionally, individual investors such as Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, Y Combinator President Garry Tan, and Cruise's former co-founder Kyle Vogt also increased their investment.

In addition to the funding, Odyssey has entered into a deep strategic partnership with Amazon AWS. AWS will become Odyssey's preferred cloud services provider, and Odyssey will collaborate with Amazon's Annapurna Labs to fully optimize its world model on the AWS Trainium AI accelerator chip. The Odyssey team pointed out that the development of the world model is currently experiencing a turning point similar to GPT-3, with the technology transitioning from research to disruptive foundational implementation.

Founded in 2023, Odyssey was established by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke. Unlike traditional generative video or language models, Odyssey focuses on developing a "universal world model" designed to conduct precise causal and dynamic simulations in virtual or real-world physical environments through its in-house Odyssey-2 Max, multimodal world model Starchild-1, and multi-agent interaction system Agora-1. These technologies will be deeply applied in the future across various fields such as robotics, science, healthcare, education, game development, and defense.