Google. OpenAI. Anthropic. PewDiePie. As we all know, these are the names of the biggest players in the artificial intelligence space. Yes, the once-most-subscribed person on YouTube-turned-edgelord-turned-semi-retired dad vlogger has a new AI workspace and agent to offer, and it’s basically a Frankenstein’s monster of a bunch of other open-source AI projects. Dubbed Odysseus, the primary selling point (though it’s free) is privacy. PewDiePie promised there is “no tracking, no subscriptions, no funny business. It’s yours and yours forever.” PewDiePie described the project as “Basically, it’s Claude and ChatGPT’s web UI but self-hosted.” But the closer comparison is probably OpenClaw, with some of the pain points of the self-hosted AI tool (supposedly) ironed out. The web UI part is a key note, though—this thing is accessible via desktop or mobile browser, but there is no macOS or Windows port available—PewDiePie said that was someone else’s problem to deal with. By running AI models locally instead of pinging prompts and responses back and forth between some data center, there is less of a concern of your behaviors being tracked, shared, and monetized (though it does apparently support using models like Claude, ChatGPT, and others via API if you want to go that route).