PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice while he built Ajax, his local AI model

Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie) says OpenAI suspended his account twice over "distillation" while he developed Ajax, a local model fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B. Ajax runs on consumer hardware inside Odysseus, an agent harness for email, calendar and browsing without cloud exposure.

• Ajax is a fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B with 9 billion parameters running locally
• OpenAI cited distillation violations in two account suspensions
• The model uses automatic abliteration via the open-source Heretic tool
• No public benchmarks yet; next steps are RL, quantization and testing