After roughly a year of building, PewDiePie has released Odysseus, a free and open-source AI workspace that runs on your own hardware 👀🤖💻 The important detail is that Odysseus is not a new AI model. It’s an interface similar to the apps people use for ChatGPT or Claude, but self-hosted. Instead of sending prompts, files, and conversations through company servers, users can run open-source models locally or connect their own API keys through providers like Ollama, OpenRouter, and OpenAI. The platform goes beyond basic chat, adding agents, memory, document handling, email and calendar integration, and a deep research mode. And honestly, that’s what makes the project interesting. Most AI products are moving toward greater convenience through cloud services. Odysseus is making the opposite bet. It’s betting that some users are willing to accept more setup and technical complexity in exchange for greater control, privacy, and ownership of their data. The tradeoff is obvious. Runn...