A YouTuber with 110 million subscribers released a free version of ChatGPT.
His name is Felix Kjellberg. You know him as PewDiePie.
He spent his own money on a 10-GPU computer at home. He used it to run the same kind of AI models that power ChatGPT, but on his own hardware. Then he wrote his own app to chat with them, because the apps that already exist were not good enough.
Then he gave it away for free. Anyone can download it. Anyone can change it. Anyone can run it.
It's called Odysseus.
It runs on your computer. Your data stays on your disk. No account. No tracking. No monthly fee.
What you get:
- A chat window like ChatGPT
- An AI assistant that can browse the web, read your files, and do tasks for you
- A tool that scans your computer and tells you which AI models will work on it
- A research mode that reads many websites and writes you a report
- A side-by-side mode to test two AI models on the same question
- A writing editor where AI helps you, instead of writing for you
- Memory, so the AI remembers your past chats
- Email with AI that sorts your inbox and writes replies for you
- Notes, a to-do list, and a calendar
- Works on your phone too
23,612 stars on GitHub in 2 days. Top of trending all weekend.
ChatGPT Plus costs $20 a month. Claude Pro costs $20 a month. PewDiePie's version costs nothing, runs on your own computer, and the code is open for anyone to read.
This is what AI looked like before the subscription model.
(Link in the comments)
Five days ago the United States lost a $220 million drone over the Strait of Hormuz. And nobody told you.
On February 22, an MQ-4C Triton, registration 169660, transmitted emergency code 7700 at 32,900 feet over the strait and vanished from Flightradar24. Gone. No wreckage announcement. No CENTCOM statement. No Pentagon briefing. The most advanced maritime surveillance drone in the American arsenal disappeared over the most contested waterway on earth during the largest military buildup since 2003, and the silence is deafening.
This is the same location, the exact same coordinates over the strait, where Iran shot down an RQ-4A Global Hawk in June 2019 using a Khordad-3 surface-to-air missile. That incident nearly triggered a war. Trump approved strikes, then recalled them with planes already in the air. Seven years later, another high-altitude surveillance drone vanishes in the same spot, and the Pentagon says nothing.
Defence Security Asia and Defence-UA report Iranian electronic warfare is suspected. Not a missile. Electronic warfare. If confirmed, this means Iran did not destroy the Triton. Iran hijacked it. Seized its control link, overwhelmed its GPS navigation, and either crashed it into the Gulf or worse, landed it intact the way Iran captured the RQ-170 Sentinel in 2011 by spoofing its GPS and guiding it down like a lost bird.
Now connect this to what China has been delivering.
X accounts with intelligence community sourcing report China has transferred advanced electronic warfare systems to Iran capable of jamming carrier-based F-35s. EADaily reports the US “blames Russia and China” for the loss. If Iranian EW systems, built with Chinese technology, can seize control of an MQ-4C Triton flying at 33,000 feet, those same systems can disrupt the communications and targeting links that the entire strike architecture depends on.
The F-22s suppress radar. The B-2s carry bunker busters. The carriers launch strike packages. All of it relies on data links, GPS targeting, and command signals traveling through electromagnetic spectrum that Iran, with Chinese hardware, just demonstrated it can dominate over the strait.
You do not spend $67 billion on stealth and then lose your surveillance drone to electronic warfare five days before a potential strike. That is not a setback. That is a capability demonstration by the other side, proving they can blind you over the waterway you need to control.
The Pentagon’s silence is the loudest signal. When you lose a $220 million asset to a technical malfunction, you say so immediately because the alternative narrative is worse. When you say nothing for five days, it is because confirming what happened reveals a vulnerability you cannot afford to acknowledge while 500 aircraft and two carriers sail into the same electromagnetic environment.
Iran just showed you it can turn the lights off over Hormuz. And Washington is pretending nobody noticed. https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW
Two superpowers moving in sync today:
>US clears non-essential embassy personnel out of Israel.
>CHINA urges its nationals to evacuate Iran immediately.
China just told its citizens to leave Iran immediately. China. The country that is currently selling Iran CM-302 anti-ship missiles. The country whose satellites have been photographing every American base, every carrier departure, every F-22 on Israeli tarmac. The country that delivered electronic warfare systems to Tehran and published annotated imagery of US strike architecture on Weibo in Mandarin. That country just told its own people to get out.
Xinhua, China’s official state news agency, issued the advisory today, Friday February 27. Beijing advised citizens to avoid all travel to Iran and urged those present to evacuate as soon as possible via commercial flights or land borders. This is not the January statement where spokesperson Mao Ning said China was “monitoring” and would “take measures to ensure safety.” That was diplomatic holding language. This is evacuation language. The shift from monitoring to evacuate happened in the same week China finalized missiles designed to sink the ships America is sending.
You do not arm a country and evacuate from it simultaneously unless you know the weapons you sold will be needed and you know when.
Now hold every evacuation signal issued on this single Friday.
10:24 AM local time, US Ambassador Huckabee emailed his own staff in Jerusalem: leave Israel today. The embassy shifted to authorized departure, one step below mandatory evacuation, the US government paying for families to fly out. India told citizens to leave Iran. Canada issued its strongest possible warning: leave Iran now. Germany advised citizens in Israel to prepare for airspace closures. The Beirut embassy is evacuating against Hezbollah retaliation.
Six governments. One Friday. All running for the same exits.
Each of those governments has classified intelligence briefings that you and I do not have. Each reached the same conclusion independently. Each chose the same day to act. Whatever they read in those briefings, it produced identical behavior across six capitals on six continents within the same 12-hour window on Friday February 27.
But China’s advisory is different from all the others. America evacuates because America might strike. India evacuates because India has citizens in the blast radius. Canada and Germany evacuate because NATO allies share intelligence. China evacuates because China knows exactly what it sold, exactly what it photographed, and exactly what happens when the weapons it transferred meet the strike package it mapped.
Beijing just told you it expects its own missiles to be fired. At the ships it photographed. Using the intelligence it provided. And it wants its people clear before the math resolves.
The country arming Iran for war just cleared its civilians from the battlefield. That is not a travel advisory. That is a departure from a construction site the morning before demolition. The architect knows the schedule because the architect drew the blueprints.
Everyone with a classified briefing is moving toward the exit. On the same Friday. In the same direction. At the same speed. The only people still debating whether this is real are the ones without clearance to read what six governments read before they picked up the phone and said the same word: “leave”.
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So in one day Anthropic:
>Accused China of IP theft (while they pirated 7M books)
>Tanked IBM $31B with a blog post.
>Got Pentagon threats for refusing weapons.
>Still in $1.5B copyright settlement for stealing human knowledge
anthropic stole from humans to build Claude.
“SO BASICALLY THIS COMPANY CALLED ANTHROPIC SCRAPED THE ENTIRE INTERNET AND STOLE EVERYONES ART AND SECRETS OR SOME SHIT AND THEN THEY GOT REALLY MAD WHEN SOME CHINESE COMPANIES STOLE THE SAME SHIT THAT THEY JUST STOLE. ANYWAYS IM SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW.”
The most honest sentence in the entire AI industry right now is one nobody wants to say out loud.
Every major foundation model was trained on data its creators did not have explicit permission to use. Every single one.
Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion over 7 million pirated books used to train Claude.
OpenAI faces ongoing lawsuits from authors, newspapers, and code repositories.
Google trained on the entire indexed internet. Meta used Libraries Genesis datasets. And xAI’s Grok was trained on the full corpus of X posts, a decision Musk made unilaterally as the platform’s owner without individual user consent.
So when Elon Musk tweets that “Anthropic is guilty of stealing training data at massive scale and has had to pay multi-billion dollar settlements for their theft.
This is just a fact,” he is telling a true but deeply selective version of the story. The settlement is real. The $1.5 billion is documented. The pirated books are documented. But framing this as an Anthropic problem rather than an industry-wide structural reality is competitive positioning disguised as moral outrage.
Here is the actual mechanism nobody is mapping.
Anthropic accused Chinese labs of distilling Claude through its public API. Musk responded by pointing out Anthropic trained on stolen data.
Gergely Orosz, a respected engineer, wrote “Anthropic can’t have it both ways.” All three are correct simultaneously and all three are being selectively honest.
The structural reality is that the entire foundation model industry sits on an unresolved intellectual property question worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Every lab trained on data it did not license. Every lab knows this.
Every lab’s legal strategy is to get big enough that the settlement becomes a cost of doing business rather than an existential threat. Anthropic already paid $1.5 billion. That is not a punishment. That is a licensing fee paid retroactively under legal pressure.
The reason Musk is raising this now has nothing to do with ethics. Anthropic is in conversations with the Pentagon. xAI is competing for the same contracts. Framing your competitor as a data thief three days before a defense meeting is not moral clarity. It is positioning.
And the deepest irony is the China angle. The United States wants to restrict Chinese access to American AI models on intellectual property grounds. But every American AI model was built on intellectual property its creators took without permission from millions of authors, coders, artists, and publishers.
The entire moral framework for the technology export control regime rests on an intellectual property argument that the American labs themselves have not resolved domestically.
That is not hypocrisy anyone in the industry wants to discuss because the moment you acknowledge it, the legal and regulatory exposure scales to every company simultaneously.
Musk is weaponizing it selectively. Anthropic is deflecting it selectively the way I see this.
And the actual creators whose work built every one of these models are watching billionaires argue about who stole from them more ethically.
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