Odyssey launches Odyssey-3 world model, hits SOTA on Physics-IQ and tops WorldMark
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-09
Odyssey (founded by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, whose team spent a decade on self-driving cars) has released Odyssey-3, its most powerful foundation world model, now available as a research preview with API access for physical AI developers.
Key points:
- Implemented as an autoregressive diffusion transformer, it's a learned dynamical system that picks up physics, dynamics, and cause-and-effect from large-scale visual observation, usable for both simulating environments and training policies.
- Odyssey-3 Pro sets a new SOTA on the Physics-IQ Verified benchmark and ranks 1st in 3 of WorldMark's 4 categories.
- It generates navigable first/third-person embodied environments in real time from a prompt, reacting live to agent actions and injected events.
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