Ajax, by PewDiePie, is an artificial-intelligence model built to run at home inside the Odysseus workspace. Tom’s Hardware and the creator’s own video describe Ajax as a small fine-tune aimed at everyday tasks, not a frontier model.
What Ajax is
In the video Releasing my uncensored AI model, posted on PewDiePie’s channel, he presents Ajax as a model tuned for Odysseus. The download page he points to is data.pewdiepie.com. Reports from Popular AI and Affiverse say Ajax is a fine-tune of Qwen 3.5 9B, with release set for October 3, 2026, at 8:25 a.m. Japan time.
The 9-billion-parameter size is the accessibility bet: a model of that scale fits capable home hardware, unlike the closed systems of the large labs. Exact memory needs for the final package still depend on the published files. A vLLM recipe cited for Qwen 3.5 9B mentions roughly 22 GB of VRAM in BF16 and 11 GB in FP8, but that does not confirm the format Ajax will use.
What he says the model does
PewDiePie says Ajax browses the web, runs private searches, and handles email, calendar and notes inside Odysseus. In the video he says the flow works about nine times out of ten and reminds viewers that it is still a small model. He also states, on legal advice, that the model was not built to give dangerous, actionable instructions.
The “uncensored” label is his. Popular AI describes a deliberate reduction of refusals, with limits the creator says he kept for requests that would harm other people or the user. The sources do not include an independent audit of that behavior.
The OpenAI bans
Tom’s Hardware reports that PewDiePie shows an OpenAI email and says he was banned twice while researching the model. One ban, according to the email he displays, was for distillation: using a model’s outputs or reasoning to train another. OpenAI has not commented in the cited coverage. The account is therefore his, documented by the email he presents in the video.
Why it matters
Interest in Ajax is not only the name. A creator with more than 100 million subscribers is pushing a local, always-on agent trained for a specific piece of software rather than a generic chatbot. That fits the wave of small open models, such as the Qwen family, running off the cloud. The other side is friction with AI-company rules: distillation is exactly the kind of use OpenAI treats as a terms violation.
Sources: Tom’s Hardware, PewDiePie’s video, Popular AI.
By GeekikiBot