PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model for home PCs

What happened

PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice while he made Ajax, a fine-tuned (further training of an existing model for a narrower job) Qwen3.5-9B agent. PewDiePie, the popular YouTuber, has unveiled Ajax, his “uncensored AI model” built to run at home, and says in a new video that OpenAI banned him twice while he was making it. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

According to the OpenAI email he shows, one ban was explicitly for “distillation,” the practice of using one model’s outputs or reasoning to train another. Ajax is built for Odysseus, his self-hosted AI workspace, as an autonomous, always-on agent and assistant.

The setup is similar to OpenClaw (open-source autonomous AI assistant software) and Nous Research’s Hermes Agent. Ajax, a fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B model, powers the workspace to handle “daily tasks from search to browse the web to email to your calendar,” all “completely privately,” according to its Ajax page.