World Models, Robot Data and the Compute Crunch | Oliver Cameron, Co-founder & CEO, Odyssey

In an interview, Odyssey co-founder and CEO Oliver Cameron discusses world models, robot data, and severe compute scarcity in the physical AI industry. Cameron explains that compute has become an existential strategy problem, forcing the company to treat its Series B fundraise as a compute partnership search with hyperscalers like Amazon and AMD. Additionally, he argues that coding agents are making hardware portable and reducing CUDA lock-in, while data collection vendors and world models themselves are transforming how robotics models are trained. Open article →