OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC

In brief

• PewDiePie said in a new video that OpenAI banned his account twice while he built Ajax, a small AI model meant to run on a home computer. Tech City Authority found no public response from OpenAI.
• He says he used GPT-5.6 Sol to generate training data after his account was restored, then stripped the model's refusals with the open-source tool Heretic.
• Ajax is reportedly a 9-billion-parameter model built on Alibaba's Qwen 3.5. A countdown on its download page ends at 08:25 Japan time on October 3.

YouTuber PewDiePie says OpenAI banned his account twice while he built Ajax, a small AI model meant to run on your own computer and browse the web for you. He tells the story in a new video on his YouTube channel.

Ajax is what he calls “a fine-tuned AI model.” That means an existing model got extra training for one specific job. Here, the job is working inside Odysseus, the free, self-hosted AI app PewDiePie launched in June.

Run on your own machine, a model like this keeps your emails and calendar at home instead of on a company's servers. There’s also no subscription fee, though your own hardware does the heavy lifting.

Ajax is supposed to be a 9-billion-parameter model built on Alibaba's open-source Qwen 3.5. Parameters are the adjustable numbers that make up an AI's “brain,” and more is generally considered more powerful. The model is pending for release but will be available on his website once Pewdiepie thinks it’s ready.