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A research preview of Odyssey-1, a real-time, playable world model Oliver Cameron May 28th, 2025 The Emergence of a New Form of Intelligence Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models—a new form of multimodal intelligence.
Through our research, we’re now seeing the earliest glimpses of an entirely new form of intelligence, powered by world models.
We’re launching our first interactive video experience A Research Preview of Odyssey-1 Today marks the beginning of our journey to bring this to life, with the public launch of our first playable experience .
Powering this is a new world model called Odyssey-1, demonstrating capabilities like generating pixels that feel realistic, maintaining spatial consistency, learning actions from video, and outputting coherent video streams for 5 minutes or more.
What’s particularly remarkable is its ability to generate and stream new, realistic video frames every 40ms.
The experience today feels like exploring a glitchy dream—raw, unstable, but undeniably new.
While its utility is limited for now, improvements won’t be driven by hand-built game engines, but rather by models and data.
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