PewDiePie Ajax AI: frequently asked questions

No. As of our last check on 2026-10-07, the official page (data.pewdiepie.com) still says "Coming soon". There are no official weights, no model card and no license. The official page says it will ship "when it's ready".

No date has been announced. A countdown briefly appeared on 2026-10-02 pointing at 2026-10-03, but it was removed the next day and replaced with "when it's ready". We treat the release as paused until the official page changes.

The only official distribution point announced so far is https://data.pewdiepie.com/ - the "Download Ajax here" link in the video description points there. Nothing has been posted yet. Any Hugging Face repo or mirror claiming to be Ajax today is unofficial.

No price has been announced for Ajax. Odysseus, the workspace it is built for, is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Per the official page: "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 - search, browsing, email, calendar - privately on your own hardware.

Odysseus is PewDiePie's free, self-hosted AI workspace (AGPL-3.0, on GitHub since May 2026). It is the harness - chat, agents, email, calendar, local model workflows. Ajax is the model, the first one trained specifically to run inside Odysseus. Odysseus already exists and can run other local models.

The official page says "Ajax's refusal has been ablated for a freer, less restricted AI experience." In the video, PewDiePie says he removed refusals using the open-source tool Heretic, and that he drew the line at harm to others and self-harm. It means the model is trained to refuse fewer requests than a stock model.

He says OpenAI banned his account twice while he was building Ajax; one OpenAI email shown in the video cites "distillation". He says he then used outputs from an OpenAI model (reported as "GPT-5.6 Sol") to generate training data after his account was restored.

Only estimates exist, based on the 9B base model: roughly 22 GB GPU memory at full precision, ~11 GB at 8-bit (both reported analysis), and our estimate of ~5–6 GB at 4-bit. Released formats (GGUF/AWQ/MLX) and context length are unknown.

No. ajaxmodel.dev is an independent tracker. It is not affiliated with PewDiePie, Odysseus or Alibaba/Qwen. Status changes here are confirmed by a human before going live.

No - this site tracks the Ajax AI model: PewDiePie's fine-tuned local model for his Odysseus workspace. In Greek myth Ajax was Odysseus' rival; PewDiePie joked it is named after the cleaning product.