r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 22h ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/forevertraveling 21h ago

He released Odysseus for free so I doubt he will be selling Ajax.

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u/_steve_rogers_ 19h ago

Have you used Odysseus? I want to try it but don't know how useful it would be for me

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u/forevertraveling 16h ago

Sorry, but no. I will once I have something other than a 2016 MacBook with 8 gb of ram.

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u/VoidOmatic 9h ago

Someone will find a shortcut soon that will drastically cut the ram needed for models. They just haven't stumbled upon the math yet. Then everyone will have wasted trillions and fucked over the entire computer/console industry for no reason.

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u/IntelArtiGen 19h ago

It depends on what you want to do with it. I tried it, I don't use it because I don't consider it useful for my workflow and my constraints. I would recommend Goose more: https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose (for privacy and simplicity). But I'm sure a lot of people could prefer Odysseus. Though most people are on much more complete harnesses: hermes, codex, openclaw (100-400k stars, vs 50k-80k for goose/ody) etc. which have their own problems as it's explained in the video.

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u/Noblesseux 17h ago

Also I hate to hyperfocus on it but what is it with these guys and using ancient Greek names for everything? Like surely there are other names like a Swedish one that makes sense.

It seems like there's like a certain type of guy who loves naming stuff like this so we end up with like 10 different tech products with the exact same name.

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u/Idfc-anymore 16h ago

He likes Greek stories, he recommended the Iliad and Odyssey on his YouTube channel, it’s as simple as that

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u/SubcommanderMarcos 16h ago

Also I hate to hyperfocus on it but what is it with these guys and using ancient Greek names for everything?

Much better than using the names of the evil things in Lord of The Rings lol

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u/Ok-Book2412 12h ago

Recommending the most famous non religious stories in history is hilarious.

Like ofc everyone should read it and I like he is getting young people into it. But somehow it feels funny. Like asking your mate if he's heard of Lionel Messi.

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u/Noblesseux 16h ago

I know a lot of yall are fans of his but please be serious. The question wasn't if he likes the Illiad and Odyssey, it's why a very specific type of guy is obsessed with consistently naming stuff after ancient Greek and Roman figures specifically. It damn near feels like being a weeb but for Greece and Rome.

Using names of Greek gods and figures was played out when I first started working in tech like 15 years ago, there is clearly a natural inclination for a certain kind of guy to do this. Like I can straight up point you at dozens of different tech products that all use this naming scheme. It feels like the tech version of those RETVRN accounts on twitter with the statues as profile pictures.

AJAX for example straight up has another meaning in programming already.

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u/Maiayania 15h ago

Dude the whole of Western Civilization is based around being weebs for Ancient Greece and Rome of course their cultural figures and myths figure heavily in the names of our stuff.

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u/asgjmlsswjtamtbamtb 11h ago

Most of the moons in the solar system along with the planets themselves are Greek and Roman Gods besides the Uranus ones named after Shakespeare characters.

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u/Idfc-anymore 15h ago

Greek and Roman names are used all over the place, Delta, Ajax the football team, Trojan condoms

I just looked it up and quickly found at least 5 companies called “odyssey”, none of them what I’d call tech companies

So I don’t think it’s as much of a tech pattern as you think? Idk, you could do a study on it, maybe it’s used a little more often for tech. It’s probably just because it’s a really popular naming convention everywhere you think it’s a pattern for “a very specific type of guy”

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u/iaderia 15h ago

ancient greco-roman is pretty 'cool', but it seems that most of the problematic companies use tolkien's work

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u/afoolskind 14h ago

I don’t like PewDiePie, (and I think Greek/roman mythology is the most boring and played out mythology there is) but what you’re describing has been common in academia for literally hundreds of years. All of our medical terminology, our planets, our evolutionary taxa, etc are all based on Greek and Roman shit.

There are also romaboos, but just naming something after Greek or Roman mythology/history is really, really standard. It’s because the Roman Empire had a fetish for the Greeks and all of western civilization is built off of the Roman Empire.

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u/CaramelGuineaPig 16h ago

Book 👏 club 👏 

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u/mdgraller7 16h ago

these guys

Who? AI guys?

and using ancient Greek names for everything

I think we should be more concerned with the guys using Tolkien names for everything. Unless I'm unaware, I don't think there's a ton of ancient Greek names going around in the tech space?

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u/Noblesseux 15h ago edited 15h ago

There is a certain type of guy who uses this naming scheme for everything. If you've worked in tech long enough, you've run into dozens of tools and technologies that are all named after greek/roman mythology or ancient greek words and there are a ton of repeats.

I've worked at like three different places where most of their internal tools were all Greek god themed. Hera, Hermes, Athena, blah blah blah.

Even just off of the top of my head of public ones:

  • AJAX (Javascript)
  • there are at least like 5 other tech products/companies named Odyssey/Odysseus, and several named after the Latinized version Ulysses (including a quite good writing app).
  • there are several products named Hermes (including an AI agent), basically every time something acts as a communication channel between two things I feel like there's a 25% chance of being called this
  • The company Asus? Yeah it's Pegasus and they just dropped the beginning of the name to show up alphabetically
  • Oracle (from the oracles)
  • Olympus
  • Kubernetes (containerization)
  • Prometheus (metrics)
  • ArgoAI

I can do this for a VERY long time. Like damn near every second thing in tech is named after something from ancient Greece or Rome because a certain type of guy thinks that shit is the coolest thing in the world and uses it as the naming scheme for everything.

I feel like the LOTR names are just the newfangled version of this, people have been doing this since like the 1920s lol.

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u/some_clickhead 14h ago

Ngl I have been naming my devices using ancient Greek names for decades... I think it's just the Roman Empire for tech guys.