Odyssey-3 world model available for public preview
The Decoder: Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free
Odyssey is making its world model Odyssey-3 available as a public research preview. The 14-billion-parameter model generates interactive environments from text prompts in real time and can reportedly control robots, drones, and even GTA V. Odyssey claims top scores on physics benchmarks, though the methodology behind those results has limits. The article Odyssey-3 is a new generative world model that you can try for free appeared first on The Decoder.
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A California-based AI company has released a public preview of a generative world model that creates interactive environments from text descriptions in real time, allowing users to explore these worlds from different perspectives and trigger events. The model learns physical relationships and cause-and-effect from training data including internet videos, video game footage, and simulated physical interactions, then generates new video frames based on previous frames and user actions. Beyond interactive world generation, the model is designed to control different systems like robotic arms, drones, and video game characters by pairing it with specialized controllers for each application. World models aim to give AI systems an understanding of spatial and physical relationships, and this represents part of a broader industry race to develop such technology.
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