YouTuber PewDiePie says OpenAI banned his account twice while he built Ajax, an AI model intended to run on users' computers. Ajax is reportedly a 9-billion-parameter model built on Alibaba's open-source Qwen 3.5 for PewDiePie's self-hosted app Odysseus. PewDiePie used an open-source tool to remove selected refusals, but said Ajax is not designed to provide dangerous, actionable instructions. PewDiePie says Ajax handles tasks such as sorting inboxes and browsing successfully about nine times out of 10. Ajax is not yet downloadable, and a countdown previously pointing to 08:25 Japan time on October 3 has been removed.
