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Odyssey

StartupVideo world modelUnited StatesFounded 2023

AI lab building general world models; its Odyssey-3 model is presented as a backbone for robot-arm, humanoid, driving and drone control policies.

Overview

Odyssey is an AI lab building general world models, started in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke. Its model line runs from Explorer (2024) through Odyssey-1 and Odyssey-2 to Odyssey-3 (2026), which it presents as a backbone for controlling robot arms, humanoids, cars and drones. It raised a $310M Series B led by Natural Capital at a $1.45B valuation in June 2026.

Sources: odyssey.systems (19 Oct 2026) · odyssey.systems (19 Oct 2026) · odyssey.systems (15 Sep 2026) · press.airstreet.com (23 Jun 2026)

Type
Startup
Founded
2023press.airstreet.com, 23 Jun 2026

Key people

Funding history

Private company · $310M disclosed in USD across 1 of 2 listed rounds

Funding rounds for Odyssey
DateRoundAmountLeadSource
12 Feb 2026Strategic investmentUndisclosedNVentures, Samsung Nextodyssey.systems, 12 Feb 2026
17 Jun 2026Series BValuation: $1.45B$310MNatural Capitalodyssey.systems, 17 Jun 2026

Ranking

#80 of 104 model companies · score 9.2 / 100 · updated 19 Oct 2026

  • Published benchmarks 35%0%
  • Open weights 20%0%
  • Adoption 20%0%
  • Released models 15%20%
  • Disclosed funding 10%62%

Each bar shows an input from 0 to 100% before weighting. 0 of 1 listed models have open weights.

How we rank model companies

The score (0–100) measures public, checkable evidence about a company's robot models. It does not measure private capability. A company that publishes no benchmark results and no weights can still have strong models. Every input is computed from the data on each company page, and every number there links to its source.

InputWeightHow it is measured
Published benchmarks35%For each scored benchmark, the company's best result divided by the best result any company has published, averaged over the benchmarks it reports. No published results scores 0. Results come only from the model's own paper, model card or the official benchmark leaderboard. Scored: LIBERO (4-suite average success, %); SimplerEnv Google Robot, visual matching (%); SimplerEnv Google Robot, variant aggregation (%); SimplerEnv WidowX / Bridge (%); CALVIN ABC→D (average length, 0–5); RoboArena (pairwise rating).
Open weights20%Share of the company's listed models whose weights the public can download.
Adoption20%GitHub stars on the company's most-starred official model repository, on a log scale relative to the most-starred repository in the list. Hugging Face downloads are shown on company pages but not scored, because gated repositories report zero.
Released models15%Number of publicly announced, named models, capped at 5.
Disclosed funding10%The sum of the funding rounds listed on the company's profile that were disclosed in USD, on a log scale from $10M to the largest sum in the list. Rounds reported only in other currencies are listed but not converted or counted. This input applies only to private startups and robot makers. For big-tech divisions, research labs and listed companies it is n/a, and its weight is shared across the other inputs in proportion.

Sources. arXiv papers and official model cards for benchmarks and parameters; official leaderboards (RoboArena); the GitHub and Hugging Face APIs for stars and downloads; company announcements and established press for funding. Missing values are shown as n/a, never estimated.

Updated 19 Oct 2026. Benchmark protocols differ between papers, for example in fine-tuning and number of trials, so small gaps between close scores are not meaningful.

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Closed or unreleased-weights models (1)

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Odyssey-3

Closed weightsWorld model

Autoregressive diffusion-transformer world model used as a frozen backbone with a trained action decoder to control robot arms, humanoids (with Flexion), cars and drones; research preview launched 2026-10-08.

Released
15 Sep 2026
Parameters
n/a
License
n/a
Embodiments
single-arm, humanoid, car, drone
GitHub stars
n/a
HF downloads (all time)
n/a
Published benchmark results for Odyssey-3
BenchmarkResultSource
OtherPhysics-IQ Verified, video-to-video score (Odyssey-3 Pro)Shown, not scored66.1%odyssey.systemsCompany-reported, Physics-IQ Verified leaderboard as of 2026-10-07, average of 4 runs; physics-of-video benchmark, not a robot-control benchmark. As of 8 Oct 2026