Five minutes.
AI, made clearer.

Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present.

He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro.

the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall.

Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

President Donald Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela

That sequence does not establish that Grok influenced Trump's decision to proceed with the operation.

public reaction is not the same as political stability, intelligence assessment, or evidence of support for a military operation.

Ajax is a fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 9B model, trained for Odysseus to be your always on agent.

Ajax's refusal has been ablated for a freer, less restricted AI experience.

I've decided to release Ajax when it's ready instead of putting a timer.

shows a countdown to October 3 at 08:25 Japan time (4:55 a.m. IST)

And when making this model, OpenAI banned me twice

OpenAI hasn't publicly responded to his claim, as far as we can tell.

Ajax isn't available to download yet.

it remains a coming-soon model, with no final model card, public benchmarks or confirmed licence for its weights.

He says OpenAI banned his account, restored it after an appeal, then banned it again.

The account comes from PewDiePie himself and is not an official OpenAI explanation.

Early testing showed roughly 90% task completion rates, though Kjellberg described Ajax as a work in progress.

The model weights remain private as of launch.

The download link currently directs users to a data contribution page rather than the model itself.

player of all time, 15 games to one, with four draws

And it took just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars to train it.

That balancing act, the team explains, is what stumped earlier AIs like DeepMind’s DeepNash, introduced in 2022.

In a 20-game series, Ataraxos defeated the most decorated Stratego player of all time

Ataraxos won the series with 15 wins, 1 loss, and 4 draws

over 600 weeks as the #1 ranked player (the most of all time)

Such a run costs less than $8,000 at current prices

such a training run would roughly cost between $3,000,000 and $4,500,000

To the recollection of the corresponding author with whom we spoke

DeepMind responded that it would not be possible as the code for DeepNash is no longer functional.

the outcomes of the games were far from independently and identically distributed

Pim was paid $1,000 for participating in the evaluation

Across 40 such games, Ataraxos recorded a vertiginously high 95% effective win rate (38 wins, 2 losses, 0 draws)

doing so requires not an industrial budget, but merely a few thousand dollars

Just 16 GPUs, and a few thousand dollars?

Ataraxos achieved this result while only costing a few thousand dollars to train.