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

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. PewDiePie said he wanted to distill from GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship model OpenAI released on July 9. Distillation means training a smaller AI on a bigger one's answers, like a student copying the class genius's homework. The prize was Sol's reasoning tokens, the chunks of text a model writes on a hidden scratchpad while it works through a problem. OpenAI keeps that scratchpad encrypted. In the video, he said he found a study that cracks it using OpenAI's own API. He also said he would never have cracked OpenAI, but OpenAI banned him anyway. He called the ban unjustified, disputed it, and the account came back online some time later. Then, he said, he used Sol again to create seed data, the starter examples a model learns from, and OpenAI banned him a second time. OpenAI's terms of use bar using its output to develop competing models, and he got banned again. Researchers showed in August that >encrypted reasoning blocks from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google could be replayed to a weaker sister model that wrote them out in plain text. They decoded 315,320 of them from public code repositories. On Sept. 30, OpenAI said it disrupted a campaign by people

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