Overview
- Odyssey, which announced the funding on June 17, closed a $310 million Series B led by Natural Capital that values the company at $1.45 billion.
- The round includes participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and In‑Q‑Tel and establishes AWS as Odyssey’s preferred cloud provider with access to Trainium chips.
- Nvidia’s venture arm backed Odyssey’s Series A in February but did not join the Series B, marking a notable shift in vendor alignment toward AWS and AMD for compute support.
- Odyssey builds multimodal, physics‑aware world models such as Odyssey‑2 Max, Starchild‑1 and Agora‑1 for robotics, autonomous systems, gaming and large‑scale simulation.
- With roughly 55 employees and about $337 million raised to date, the new funding should let Odyssey scale compute‑heavy research but also raises governance and national‑security questions because In‑Q‑Tel joined the round.