[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-pewdiepie-builds-uncensored-ai-model-for-home-pcs":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},9820,"pewdiepie-builds-uncensored-ai-model-for-home-pcs","PewDiePie builds uncensored AI model for home PCs","The YouTuber says OpenAI banned him twice over his new Ajax model, a stripped down, locally run AI built to power his Odysseus workspace.","PewDiePie has released Ajax, a \"decensored\" AI model built to run on a home PC instead of in the cloud.\n\nThe YouTuber unveiled Ajax in a new video as the engine behind Odysseus, the self-hosted AI workspace he launched in May. Ajax is a fine-tuned version of Alibaba's open-source Qwen model, stripped of its built-in refusals using an open-source tool called Heretic, which finds and removes prompts a model declines to answer. He says he drew the line at anything that could help someone harm themselves or others, and that his lawyer advised him the model is \"not designed to provide dangerous actionable instructions.\" While building it, OpenAI banned his account twice - one ban explicitly for \"distillation,\" the practice of training a new model on another model's outputs, which he admits he did \"just a little bit\" to improve Ajax.\n\nThe bans point to a real tension in AI right now: frontier labs guard their models' reasoning closely, even as PewDiePie argues some of that training data was itself scraped from everyone else's work without asking. His bet that small, task-specific models beat rumored trillion-parameter giants for everyday chores also puts him closer to open-source projects like Nous Research's Hermes Agent than to the scale-at-all-costs crowd.\n\nWhether a hobbyist-built, decensored model can do what OpenAI or Anthropic ship is a separate question - and PewDiePie, who says two more days of training and a benchmarking pass are still ahead, hasn't claimed that it does yet.","[\"ai\",\"open-source\",\"local-ai\",\"pewdiepie\"]","2026-10-02T10:30:00.000Z","2026-10-05T06:42:28.993Z","2026-10-05T06:42:34.451Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Verify the exact Qwen model name\u002Fversion before publishing — 'Qwen3.5-9B' does not match any confirmed released Alibaba Qwen model, so either correct it to the real designation or drop the specific version number.","resolved","ai",[30,32,33,34],"open-source","local-ai","pewdiepie",[36],{"name":37,"url":38},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fartificial-intelligence\u002Fpewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it",0,{"sections":41},[42,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":43,"slug":30,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"AI",6062,"2026-10-04T13:30:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Security","security",852,"2026-10-04T12:55:00.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Policy","policy",441,"2026-10-02T14:53:41.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Deals","deals",321,"2026-10-04T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Hardware","hardware",203,"2026-10-03T14:50:50.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",176,"2026-10-02T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",156,"2026-10-02T15:20:39.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",96,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Startups","startups",90,"2026-10-01T21:55:22.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",53,"2026-10-02T02:50:39.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",32,"2026-10-02T18:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]