Odyssey

Odyssey was named among the first six investees of the UK Sovereign AI Fund on 16 April 2026, receiving 500,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI . Alongside Cosine, Odyssey is the most explicitly defence-oriented investee in the first tranche: it builds multimodal world models — AI systems that can understand and predict complex multi-sensor environments — for defence and autonomous systems applications.

World models are AI systems that build internal representations of physical environments, enabling autonomous agents to plan actions and predict consequences. Multimodal world models combine visual, audio, radar, and other sensor streams, making them directly applicable to drone control, autonomous vehicles, and battlefield awareness systems. This capability sits at the intersection of commercial autonomous vehicle technology and military applications.

Odyssey's selection alongside Cosine tilts the Sovereign AI portfolio firmly toward defence and regulated applications. The combination signals that DSIT views AI sovereignty as primarily a national security issue rather than a purely commercial competitiveness question, mirroring the French Ministry of Defence's Mistral framework requiring French-only infrastructure .