Studio Software License

This is the counsel-review draft intended for the first Tensor Cortex Studio public beta. It is published for transparency but is not operative until Tensor Cortex LLC assigns an effective date and makes a public-beta download available.

When operative, installing or using Tensor Cortex Studio will mean that you accept this Studio Software License. If you do not agree, do not install or use the software.

Tensor Cortex Studio is pre-release software for local AI model-development workflows on supported Apple Silicon Macs. It is not a generally available cloud service, managed compute service, professional service, or promise of future functionality.

Subject to this License, Tensor Cortex grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the software on Macs you own or control for personal or internal evaluation, research, and model-development work during the public beta.

The license does not transfer ownership of Tensor Cortex intellectual property. Separately identified open-source components remain governed by their own licenses.

As between you and Tensor Cortex, you retain your rights in project files, datasets, prompts, outputs, model files, adapters, checkpoints, and exported artifacts. Studio is designed to keep the canonical project and workload artifacts on your Mac by default.

You are responsible for backups, the lawfulness and accuracy of your data, and the licenses, notices, privacy duties, export restrictions, and use restrictions that apply to every model, dataset, dependency, and artifact you use or distribute. Tensor Cortex does not grant rights to third-party models or datasets.

Do not use Studio in a way that violates law, third-party rights, model or dataset licenses, or applicable platform terms.

Studio connects to Hugging Face only when you choose to download a supported model. That request identifies the selected repository and pinned revision and exposes ordinary connection metadata to Hugging Face. Tensor Cortex does not receive that download or attach project workload content to it.

Studio uses Sparkle for manual software-update checks and for scheduled checks only after you opt in. Update requests expose ordinary connection metadata to Tensor Cortex's Cloudflare infrastructure but do not include project workload content. Installing an offered update remains a separate choice.

The first public beta has no product telemetry, automatic crash reporting, account login, remote project storage, or managed cloud compute. Acceptance of this License, updater consent, and model-download consent do not authorize diagnostic reporting. The Privacy Policy describes the current boundary and controls.

Except where applicable law or an identified open-source license expressly permits it, you may not bypass security, signature, integrity, or license controls; introduce malicious code or unlawfully access systems or data; misrepresent beta output, benchmarks, support status, or Tensor Cortex affiliation; rent, sublicense, sell, or distribute the proprietary software as a standalone product; or remove proprietary notices.

Nothing in this section limits non-waivable rights to inspect or interoperate with software under applicable law.

If you voluntarily provide product feedback, you grant Tensor Cortex a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it to evaluate and improve Tensor Cortex products without identifying you publicly. Do not include confidential workload content or third-party material you are not authorized to share.

Tensor Cortex may change, suspend, or discontinue the public beta or a feature at any time. No maintenance, uptime, compatibility, feature-completion, data-recovery, or support commitment is provided unless agreed in writing.

Studio may offer signed updates. You control whether scheduled checks are enabled and whether an offered update is installed. Security or compatibility reasons may make an older build unsupported; Tensor Cortex does not promise a silent downgrade or restoration of an earlier local project state.

Each distributed build must identify its supported macOS and hardware matrix, known limitations, update method, and recovery path.

Studio includes or interacts with software, models, datasets, repositories, and services supplied by third parties. Their licenses, privacy terms, acceptable-use rules, attribution requirements, and availability may apply independently.

The application provides a Third-Party Notices file from Settings for software included in the release. Models obtained separately retain their repository-supplied license and provenance.

References to Apple, Hugging Face, MLX, Sparkle, model authors, dataset authors, or other providers do not imply partnership, endorsement, license clearance, or guaranteed compatibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the software and related materials are provided as is and as available, with all faults and without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, or error-free operation.

Tensor Cortex does not warrant that training will improve a model, that an evaluation is complete, that generated output is correct, that third-party content is licensed for your use, or that Studio is suitable for production, regulated, safety-critical, or high-impact decisions. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tensor Cortex LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost models or datasets, business interruption, or reliance on generated output arising from Studio or this License.

The reviewed release must set any aggregate-liability cap and mandatory consumer-law carve-outs before this draft becomes operative. Nothing excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You may end this License by stopping use and deleting Studio. Tensor Cortex may terminate the license if you materially breach it. Terms that by their nature should survive—including ownership, third-party responsibility, disclaimers, liability limits, and governing law—will survive. Termination does not transfer or delete project artifacts stored on your Mac.

This License is governed by Wyoming law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The reviewed release must confirm venue, consumer-law treatment, export-control language, and any territory-specific terms. Nothing limits mandatory rights that apply where you live.

Tensor Cortex Studio is provided by Tensor Cortex LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, 5830 E 2nd St, Ste 7000 #23678, Casper, WY 82609, USA. Questions may be sent to hello@tensorcortex.com.