Updates, About and Licences

Updating#

Moe updates itself, quietly. It checks once a day, sending a plain request that says which version of Moe is asking and nothing about you, and when there is a new version it downloads it in the background. Once it has downloaded, the notch glows amber, the same way it does when a reminder is waiting, and the panel under the notch says A new version of Moe is ready. with Restart to update: press it and Moe closes, puts the new version in place and opens again. Later puts the question and the glow away for a day, or until Moe next opens. Moe never restarts on its own to install an update, and it never asks in the middle of something: not while a meeting is being recorded, not while it is listening or speaking, and not while it is working on an answer. If you simply quit Moe or restart your Mac, the update goes in then. No download on your part, no dragging, and no Gatekeeper dialog again. A new version reaches everyone over a day or so rather than all at once.

Updates are usually a megabyte or two rather than the whole download, since the models and the thinking part rarely change between versions. Your memories, meeting notes, connections and settings are untouched. The thinking part is kept current the same way: when a new Moe needs a newer one, it is updated in the background and restarted once.

Settings › About & Licences#

Which Moe this is, what it is built on, and the way out. At the top, Moe 0.3.x with the Beta chip beside it, and one line on updates: Keeps itself up to date: a new version is downloaded quietly, and Moe asks before restarting to install it. Under that, what beta means, and that telling Moe is what fixes a bug. Nothing technical is on it: no addresses, no keys, no device ids.

Built on open models and open source credits everything that runs on this Mac. Models and Software each name theirs on one line, and Show credits opens the list: one row per component, its role and its licence, and a Their website button that opens where its source is published. The same list, with the full licence texts, is at moebot.app/licenses.

There is no uninstall button here. To take Moe off your Mac, use Erase Moe from this Mac in Settings › Privacy.

What Moe is built on#

Moe did not build the hard parts, and says so. The models, all running on your Mac:

The software:

For the Signal components, the licences page carries a written offer of the corresponding source, and links to the exact versions used. Kokoro-82M's training data includes material from Koniwa (CC BY 3.0) and SIWIS (CC BY 4.0).

Who Moe comes from#

Moe is made by Yisrael Gottlieb, working as a sole proprietor in New Jersey, United States. That is the name the Terms of Service name as the other party to the agreement, and New Jersey law governs them. hello@moebot.app reaches us.

The playground on moebot.app#

Before you download anything, moebot.app/playground is a Mac in your browser with Moe on it and one day of one person's life loaded in: Lena's Friday from the home page. Talk to it (hold the space bar, or the button on a phone) or type. It has her mail, messages, calendar, notes, reminders, files and the memory Moe has built about her, and every app on the dock opens and works. Four switches, Mail, Messages, Calendar, Memory, let you take a source away and ask again; the answers get worse, on purpose. Ask it to send something and the same sheet the app shows appears first. Open FaceTime and a call starts; the card offers to record it, the consent sheet asks, the red ring comes on, and when the call ends the notes are in the Meetings tab, as in the app.

It is a demonstration, not the app: what you say goes to our server and on to the AI provider that answers it, its voice is made in the cloud, and each visitor gets a day's worth of that voice and a quarter of an hour of listening before the browser's own carries on. No transcripts are kept; the conversation lives in the page until you close the tab. The privacy page says exactly what leaves your browser.