PewDiePie releases Ajax, an uncensored Qwen3.5-9B model for home PCs

The release follows two account bans by OpenAI, which PewDiePie attributes to his use of "distillation"—training a new model using outputs from another. He showed an email from OpenAI citing distillation as a reason for the first ban. While OpenAI and other frontier labs actively protect their models from such practices, PewDiePie argued that small, specialized models are more practical for daily tasks than massive frontier systems. He plans to continue training Ajax with reinforcement learning and is seeking user donations of training data to improve future versions.