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Today we’re introducing Odyssey-2 Max, our largest, most powerful general world model yet Oliver Cameron April 21st, 2026 Today we’re introducing Odyssey-2 Max, our largest, most powerful general purpose world model yet.
Odyssey-2 Max materially advances the state-of-the-art in physical accuracy of world models.
Next-token prediction unlocked symbolic intelligence in language models; Odyssey-2 Max demonstrates that next-state prediction at scale leads to high-fidelity world simulation.
Every simulation was generated in real-time Simulating Open-Ended Futures and Physical Dynamics World models are a new form of multimodal intelligence, distinct from language, image, and video models.
They learn to reason about how the world evolves by training directly on visual observations of real-world action, rather than on its compressed reflection in text.
We believe this is true multimodal intelligence.
The defining capability of world models is their ability to simulate open-ended futures via continuous, interactive rollouts that evolve with actions in real time.
Bidirectional video models like Sora, Veo, Kling, and Runway cannot do this.
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