Pewdiepie’s Ajax Ai Model: YouTuber unveils local assistant on Qwen3.5-9B; OpenAI account suspensions loom

PewDiePie has unveiled Ajax, a smaller AI model designed to run locally through his self-hosted Odysseus workspace. The project follows his claim that OpenAI suspended his account twice during development, with one displayed email citing “distillation.” Built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B, Ajax aims to handle everyday tasks while offering a less restrictive experience. However, the model remains unfinished, with benchmarks, hardware requirements and downloadable weights yet to be released.