Is PewDiePie's Ajax out yet? Release date & status
Not released
Ajax has not been released. The official page says it will ship "when it's ready" — no date announced.
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Timeline
Still "Coming soon"
Our check: data.pewdiepie.com still says "Coming soon". No weights, model card or license anywhere official. source
Second wave of interest
PewDiePie's Facebook page reposts the video as "I seriously should NOT be releasing this!"; a third-party video about the story passes 1.1M views. source
Countdown removed - release paused
The countdown disappears. The page now says Ajax will ship "when it's ready" - no date. Release effectively paused. source
Countdown appears
data.pewdiepie.com shows a countdown "Ajax arrives in" ending 2026-10-03 08:25 JST. Earlier the same page was a "Help train Odysseus" data-donation page. source
Ajax unveiled on YouTube
The video "I seriously should NOT be dropping this." unveils Ajax: a refusal-ablated fine-tune of Qwen 3.5 9B built for Odysseus. He says OpenAI banned his account twice while building it, used an OpenAI model's outputs for training data, removed refusals with the open-source tool Heretic, and planned about two more days of reinforcement learning before quantizing and benchmarking. source
Odysseus repo moves org
The Odysseus repository moves from github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus to the odysseus-dev organisation; the old URL redirects. source
Odysseus launches
PewDiePie launches Odysseus, a free self-hosted AI workspace (some outlets report June). source
Quick disambiguation: "Ajax" here means PewDiePie's Ajax AI model - a fine-tuned local model - not the Amsterdam football club, the JavaScript technique, or the cleaning spray.
What we know
According to the official page (fetched 2026-10-07): "Ajax is a fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 9B model, trained for Odysseus to be your always on agent." It is meant to handle daily tasks - "from search to browse web to email to your calendar" - privately, on your own hardware. The page also says "Ajax's refusal has been ablated for a freer, less restricted AI experience."
As of 2026-10-07 Ajax is not released: no weights, no model card, no license, no quantized builds, and no Hugging Face repository from PewDiePie or the odysseus-dev organisation (The Frontier checked on 2026-10-03; still true per our check on 2026-10-07). The official wording today: "I've decided to release Ajax when it's ready instead of putting a timer. I'm sorry, I'll do my best to get it done as soon as possible!"
The Ajax release date, honestly
If you came here searching for a PewDiePie Ajax release date, the honest answer is that there isn't one. A countdown on the official page was removed on 2026-10-03 and replaced with "when it's ready" - the launch is paused, not scheduled, and no new date has been announced since.
What that means in practice: the release could be days or weeks away, and nobody outside the project knows. The only credible signals are changes on the official page and an upload appearing on Hugging Face - both of which this site checks automatically every 15 minutes. When the date is real, the status above flips and the answer moves to the download page within minutes.
For context on the delay: in the launch video PewDiePie said he still had about two more days of reinforcement learning planned, then a re-run of the de-censoring step, quantizing and benchmarking (Tom's Hardware). The countdown slipping suggests that finishing work took longer than the two days he budgeted - consistent with a small hobby project rather than a coordinated product launch.
How you'll know the Ajax release date is real: the official page gains an actual download or Hugging Face link, the Odysseus GitHub repo ships a release mentioning it, or a model repo appears under the official author names. News posts saying "has released" without a link to weights are not confirmation - several have already jumped the gun (news log).
What you can run while you wait
Ajax's base is a 9-billion-parameter Qwen 3.5, which puts it in the same single-GPU tier as today's small open-weight models. If you want a working local assistant now, our best local AI model table compares the practical options by VRAM and license - Qwen3 8B and Qwen3.5 9B are the closest like-for-like baselines. And the workspace Ajax is built for, Odysseus, is already public on GitHub and runs other local models today, so you can set it up ahead of release day.
What is Ajax, in one paragraph
Ajax is the first model trained specifically for Odysseus, PewDiePie's free self-hosted AI workspace that has existed since May 2026 and already runs other local models. In Greek myth Ajax was Odysseus' rival; PewDiePie joked the model is named after the cleaning product (Tom's Hardware). Because the base is a 9-billion-parameter model, current hardware estimates suggest it will be runnable on a single consumer GPU once it ships - but formats, context length and licensing are still unknown.
What this site monitors
Every 15 minutes a worker checks five sources: the official page's text hash, the Odysseus GitHub repo's releases and commits mentioning "ajax", Hugging Face for official-looking uploads (and fakes), PewDiePie's YouTube channel feed, and Reddit searches on r/LocalLLaMA and r/PewdiepieSubmissions. A strong signal (an actual download link on the official page or a verified release) flips the site to released automatically; anything weaker waits for a human. See how monitoring works and the news & changelog.