Odyssey raises $310M at $1.45B valuation to transform AI model simulation
Odyssey, an artificial intelligence lab building world models, today announced it has raised $310 million in early funding at a $1.45 billion valuation led by Natural Capital.
Amazon.com Inc., AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, IQT and others also joined the Series B round. Existing investors also joined the round, including Elad Gil; Jeff Dean, Google LLC’s chief scientist; Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition Inc.; Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator Inc.; Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel Inc.; and Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise LLC.
In addition to the funding, Odyssey announced a new deal with Amazon Web Services Inc., which provides access to the company’s Tranium custom silicon and instances as its preferred cloud provider. Tranium is AWS’s family of silicon designed to assist with the training and deployment of AI models at scale.
“We believe world models represent a new class of foundation model—AI that can understand and simulate the world itself,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Oliver Cameron.
