PewDiePie releases Ajax, a local 9-billion-parameter model, and says OpenAI banned him twice for distillation
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A lone person with a home computer is assembling their own SI model — open weights make this accessible to everyone.
Felix Kjellberg fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 9B; the model runs on home hardware and powers his Odysseus workspace: search, browser, email, calendar. By his account, his account was banned for distillation, and then for using OpenAI's responses as training data; he removed refusal restrictions with the Heretic tool, keeping protection against requests to harm people. There is no model card, benchmarks or weights license yet.
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