Jeff Hawke
CTO of Odyssey, leading development of general-purpose world models that generate continuous, interactive visual simulations from images or text and working on practical deployments and research in video-based AI.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 44min
World Models Are Here—But It’s Still the GPT-2 Phase
Jeff Hawke, CTO of Odyssey, builds general-purpose world models that generate interactive visual simulations from images or text. He explains how continuous video-like models are trained, early use cases like games and robotics, compute and latency challenges, stability limits on long runs, and the path toward scalable, real-time and on-device deployments.
