💪 GPS 2.0 on its way!

Big news! Efficiency and accuracy are the need of the hour for AI. When you hit the best real world physics accuracy with lower parameters, lower PFLOPs, lower cost you’re not a just a great foundation model, you’re also hitting the problem where it matters the most - lower energy and compute intensity for complex physical problems. Imagine using tens of hours of data to work a robot or train a self driving car. It’s here now from @odysseyml!

We are on the verge of the biggest technological leap for AI. Not just because of intelligent super harnesses like Astra and the latest from frontier LLMs, but because of world models like Odyssey transforming how we model the physical world. Today, @odysseyml is launching Odyssey-3. Its ability to generalize across embodiments is something we could have only dreamed of just years ago. With a few hours of driving or flying video data, Odyssey-3 can help a car drive or a drone fly itself. With a few tens of hours of robotic or human data, Odyssey-3 can give robots guide paths for how to handle real world situations. In a matter of a few hours and recursive self learning, Odyssey-3 can beat humans in any game and even make games. Odyssey-3 can observe and understand the real world and generate video in real time with no latency. Odyssey-3 beats Odyssey-2 by 10X, while requiring 1000x less data, 100x lower training costs, and delivering 10x greater inference efficiency. In under a year, this company has gone from beating physics benchmarks to powering applications across a range of real-world environments. We’re already working with several leading game studios, robotics and autonomous technology companies, and interactive content producers that are seeing the superpowers of Odyssey in production. If you want to work with us, get in touch with @olivercameron , @jeffrey_hawke, or me.

Natural Capital (@NatCapCentral) is thrilled to lead the $310M fundraise for @odysseyml, the most exciting world model out there. We're at an important inflection point for AI. The human brain uses 20 watts to produce all the complicated intelligence we need to interact with the real world. Today's AI systems are overpowered and inefficient for the knowledge and intelligence they're being used to produce. We've taught them language (sans any other training data), and the real world as an extension of that language. In order to make AI efficient we need to teach it the real world, and reasoning, logic, and language as an extension of that real world. @odysseyml is doing just that. I'm more excited than ever to partner with @olivercameron and @jeffrey_hawke to build responsible AI that benefits humanity. odyssey.ml/our-series-b

GPS was designed 50 years ago, and the world has outgrown it. Signals are weak, unencrypted, easily jammed. American farmers literally use Russian and Chinese satellites because GPS isn't enough. I’m excited to partner with Mark Scheinberg and the Mohari Ventures team to lead the $170M Series C round in @XonaSpace. Having incubated @SwarmInternet at Social Capital and followed the satellite market for over a decade, I believe Brian Manning, Tyler Reid and the team at Xona are solving GPS with the urgency, speed, and scale that space infrastructure demands. Xona's Pulsar satellites fly 20 times closer to Earth and deliver signals 100 times stronger, bringing centimeter accuracy with no new hardware required. Psyched to once again partner with @skydayton on this one. Special thanks: @RTanuku, David Zelouf, Darren Cohen Read Brian's past here: xonaspace.com/news/series-c