OpenAI suspended PewDiePie twice as he built his Ajax AI model, he says

Felix Kjellberg, the YouTuber the internet knows as PewDiePie, has released his own AI model. He calls it Ajax, and he says building it got him kicked off OpenAI not once, but twice.

The model arrived around October 1-2, 2026. It is a small, uncensored assistant designed to live on your own computer instead of someone else’s server farm.

What Ajax actually is

Ajax is a 9-billion-parameter model. Kjellberg did not build it from scratch. Ajax is a fine-tuned version of Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B base model.

The goal is practical. Ajax is meant to act as an autonomous agent and assistant inside Odysseus, a self-hosted workspace Kjellberg launched in May 2026.

Its job list is refreshingly unglamorous: web searches, email management, calendar duties and to-do lists. All of it is supposed to run on consumer hardware.

The two suspensions

The launch came with a side of drama. Kjellberg claims OpenAI suspended his account on two separate occasions while he was developing Ajax.

The stated reason, according to his account, was distillation. That is the practice of feeding a powerful model’s answers into a smaller model as training material.

In this case, the allegation centers on outputs from OpenAI models, including one referred to as “Sol,” being used to generate training data for Ajax.

The uncensored part

Ajax also leans on a tool called Heretic for a process known as “abliteration.” Abliteration is a technique for removing a model’s tendency to refuse requests. Abliteration strips out much of that reflex so the model simply answers.

According to the research findings, Ajax still keeps certain safety bounds in place against harmful requests. So uncensored here appears to mean less preachy, not entirely lawless.

What is still missing

As of early October 2026, several standard pieces of a model release were absent. Ajax had no public model card, no published benchmarks, no confirmed weights license and no immediate download link.

Background: a YouTuber goes self-hosted

Kjellberg’s AI project did not start with Ajax. Odysseus came first in May 2026, giving him a self-hosted environment for an assistant to operate in. Ajax is effectively the brain he built for that body.

What this means

Kjellberg’s account, if accurate, shows OpenAI’s terms being enforced against a high-profile individual developer, not just a rival company.

The research findings suggest interest in privately run, open-source AI systems continues to surge. A creator with Kjellberg’s reach shipping a home-hardware assistant gives that idea a very public showcase.

An abliterated model with limited documentation invites scrutiny over how its safety bounds actually hold up. And a model reportedly trained partly on another lab’s outputs could face questions about what its eventual license can legitimately permit.

A published model card and benchmarks would show whether Ajax performs as advertised. A confirmed license and download link would reveal whether it becomes a genuine open tool or stays a showcase.