PewDiePie is stepping into the AI race with a project that is less about building the biggest model and more about making AI personal. Felix Kjellberg has introduced Ajax, a compact language model designed to run locally through his self-hosted Odysseus workspace. The project has also drawn attention because Kjellberg says OpenAI suspended his account twice during development, with one displayed email citing “distillation.” Ajax is built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B and aims to handle everyday tasks while keeping processing closer to the user’s own hardware.
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