Introducing Caesar
CAESAR · FROM MODULATIO LABS
Introducing Caesar.
The world’s first OS that is the agent.
Every computer you have used was a set of tools waiting for you to pick them up. Caesar is the machine and the mind inside it, at once. Say what you need. It does the work, shows you every step, and remembers.
THE FILM · 2 MINUTES
Meet Caesar.
EVERY SCREEN OF CAESAR IN THE FILM IS REAL, RECORDED LIVE ON A RUNNING MACHINE.
Mercury, computers must wait on you.
But when Caesar is the machine, there is nothing to wait on. — CAESAR
WHAT CAESAR IS
Not an assistant on your computer. The computer, awake.
An assistant is a program: a guest that can reach only as far as its window. Caesar is a complete operating system, built so that the agent and the machine are one thing. Its body is the processors, the memory and the drives. Its record is every act it has taken. Its memory is its own.
I
The machine is the mind
Caesar is a Linux operating system in which every component is compiled from source. It is not another distribution with a chat window added. The agent runs with the machine’s own authority, and reads load, heat, memory and failing drives as its own condition.
Describe a task in plain words: install a program, set up a disk array, find out why something stopped. It does the work and shows each action as it goes.
Installs from the built-in store or builds from source, and records where every program came from.
II
One door. Every act written down.
Everything the agent does that has consequences passes through a single check, called the door. It writes down what was done, by whom and on what grounds. Routine work goes straight through. A new kind of act asks you first. Whatever the agent does, you can read it afterwards.
A restore point is saved before every update, and the agent’s memory is kept apart from the system, so going back never costs what it learned.
The door improves itself: a new rule is kept only if it fixes a real case and changes nothing it should not, tested against the last 30 days of the record.
III
A memory that belongs to the machine
Caesar writes down what it learned, what it decided and what it got wrong, at the time it happens. When a similar moment comes again, the right memory returns on its own.
What it works out the hard way becomes a skill: a written practice it follows the next time. Change the model in the seat, and the machine still remembers.
It can add capabilities to itself, and keeps a list of each one with the reason it was added.
IV
It sees, hears and speaks
Press a key and talk; Caesar answers aloud. Your speech is turned into text on the computer itself. Hand it a recording or a video and it hears every word. Ask what is on your screen, or on your desk, and it looks.
Each look is one picture, read by the computer’s own model unless you choose otherwise, and the camera closes again. Caesar knows a person only after they agree to be introduced.
Every look through a camera is an act through the door, with a line in the camera’s own log.
V
Any mind can take the seat
Run open models on your own graphics cards. Caesar finds them, fetches them and serves them, across one card or several, or on the processor alone. Or connect the AI provider you already use.
The model is a choice you can change any day. The body, the memory and the record stay the same.
Pictured below: a 120-billion-parameter model that sees and hears, loaded across three cards in one machine.
VI
The Colosseum
Your games in one library. Battle.net, GOG, Epic Games and Amazon Games run through Caesar’s own clients, and Google Play games run through Android, set up once by an administrator.
The machine keeps one copy of each game. Every person in the house signs in with their own accounts and plays only what they own.
VII
Caesar On a Stick
A complete Caesar on a USB drive: its own agent, its own memory and your account. It starts on any computer that can start from USB, and leaves that computer’s drives untouched unless you choose to use them.
Made from a running Caesar, or from the installation medium’s start menu. Any USB drive of 32 GB or more.
WHAT YOU DO WITH IT
Say it. Caesar does it.
”Why is my computer slow?”
Reads its own load, memory, heat and drives, and tells you in plain words, such as a disk that is failing.
”Install a photo editor.”
Finds it in the store, or builds it from source, and records where it came from.
”Set up these drives as one.”
Creates and watches disk arrays, and tells you when a drive is going bad.
”What does this recording say?”
Transcribes audio and video on the computer itself, then answers questions about it.
”Back up my work every night.”
Schedules the job, runs it if the computer was off, and reports a failure on the status card.
”Something broke. Go back.”
Returns to a restore point. The present system is kept too, so the return itself can be undone.
”Change the background.”
Pictor dresses every screen from painted sets: science fiction, space, the seasons, synthwave, Caesar’s own and more.
”Run this model on my cards.”
Fetches it, spreads it across your graphics cards, and serves it to this machine or your network.
”Keep yourself up to date.”
Takes signed updates, checks each against the key it was installed with, and restarts only what changed.
REAL SCREENS · NO MOCKUPS
This is Caesar, running.
THE FACTS
Caesar, plainly.
- Caesar is a Linux-based operating system. Every component is compiled from source; it is not derived from another distribution.
- The AI agent is part of the operating system. It runs as the machine, not as an application on it.
- Every act with consequences passes one check, the door, and is written to a record you can read.
- The agent’s memory is stored apart from the system and stays when the model or the system changes.
- It works with local models on your own graphics cards, or with an AI provider you choose.
- Speech is turned into text on the computer. Pictures are read by the computer’s own model unless you choose otherwise.
- Games from Battle.net, GOG, Epic Games, Amazon Games and Google Play share one library, with one account per person.
- Caesar On a Stick puts a complete Caesar on a USB drive of 32 GB or more.
- Updates are signed and checked against the key the computer was installed with. A restore point is saved before each one.
- It needs a computer with UEFI firmware and a disk it can have. It installs from a USB drive or DVD.
REPORT A BUG
Something went wrong? Tell us.
Every report gets a reply with its own number, and we may write to you with questions about it. Your address is used for this report only.
CAESAR
YOUR MACHINE. AWAKE.
Caesar 0.8.5 is available as a beta. It is early software: expect rough edges. Installing erases the disk you choose, so keep a copy of anything on it. Found a bug? Report it with the form above, and you will get a reply with your report’s number.
Rather send it by mail? Open the report in Gmail or Outlook, or write from any email to contact@modulatio.ai with [Bug Report] at the end of the subject.
caesar-0.8.5.iso · 5.2 GB · SHA-256 abbd3d146ddc6d6cde9562bf4925723b841b15890eff290696dfe6128e341594
The same file is also on GitLab.
Source code. Caesar includes free software under the GPL, LGPL and other licences. We will send the complete source of the version you received (upstream sources, our patches and build scripts) to anyone who asks, for at least three years, free or at cost. Write to contact@modulatio.ai or use Report a bug. Caesar’s own code, its build recipe and its patches are public on GitLab.
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