On February 26, 2026, popular YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg uploaded a video with a bold claim. In a video titled “I Trained My Own AI… It beat ChatGPT,” he said the artificial intelligence model he trained performed better than ChatGPT-4 and several other well-known AI systems. Right at the start, he told viewers, “The deed is done. I can finally return to this channel ’cause I have done what I said I was going to do. I trained my own AI model.”
He then shared benchmark results that, according to him, backed up his statement. PewDiePie said, “I ran the benchmarks, official AI benchmark, and my model outperforms DeepSeek 2.5, way bigger model than mine. Facebook’s flagship model, LLaMA 4 Maverick, destroyed. Bang! Most importantly of all, my model outperforms ChatGPT’s 4 in like November or something.” The video quickly gained attention online, with fans debating how serious the comparison really was.
