Pewdiepie’s Ajax Ai Model: YouTuber unveils local assistant on Qwen3.5-9B; OpenAI account suspensions loom

PewDiePie (Image via Getty) 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.PewDiePie’s Ajax AI model focuses on local, private computingAjax takes a different path from the giant cloud-based models dominating the AI industry. Its foundation, Qwen3.5-9B, has around nine billion parameters, making it far smaller than many frontier systems.That size is part of the appeal. Kjellberg is designing Ajax for practical jobs such as web searches, browsing, emails and calendars rather than trying to compete on every possible AI benchmark.The model is intended to operate as an “always-on” assistant inside Odysseus. A local setup could give users more control over their data and reduce the ne...