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Download the latest experimental Cognia runtime for Windows and Linux, including the Sensory application, command-line tools, language grammar, examples and test models.

Latest release

Sensory 7.4.0 for Windows x64 and Linux x64

Windows release candidate prepared November 4, 2026; Linux release candidate prepared November 5, 2026

Read the Windows 7.4.0 release notes · Read the Linux 7.3.0 release notes · Linux installation guide · View the complete changelog

System requirements

Both platforms:

• an NVIDIA GPU: on Windows a GeForce RTX 50 series card (Blackwell, Compute Capability 12.0; the Windows package is built for the RTX 5070), on Linux any Turing or newer card (GeForce RTX 20 series and later, Compute Capability 7.5+; the Linux package contains kernels for 7.5, 8.6, 8.9 and 12.0 plus PTX);
• a current NVIDIA driver supporting CUDA 13.2;
• a camera or microphone only when using those sensory inputs;
• only for the transformer CUDA tools and the cognia_validate_transformer_gpu and cognia_validate_placement_gpu gates: the cuBLAS 13 runtime from the CUDA Toolkit or the NVIDIA repository (not bundled, about 560 MB).

Windows: 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Linux: 64-bit x86-64 with glibc 2.38 or newer (for example Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 40), the proprietary NVIDIA driver (nvidia-smi must work), and an X11 or Wayland session for windows; without a display Sensory runs headless.

The packages are ready-to-run distributions. Visual Studio, a compiler, CMake, OpenCV and the CUDA Toolkit are not required for normal use. The NVIDIA driver always comes from your system.

What is included

• Sensory — the full camera, audio, text, Cognia and 3D network application;
• cognia — parser, semantic validator and topology inspector;
• cognia_run — GPU topology and propagation check;
• cognia_train — supervised and sequential training tool;
• cognia_serve — HTTP service over one live neural model;
• cognia_system_inspect, cognia_system_run, cognia_system_replay and cognia_system_benchmark — release-manifest inspection, contract execution, validation-log replay and profiling tools;
• cognia_learning — training-plan validation and crash recovery;
• the release gates cognia_validate_gpu, cognia_validate_orchestration, cognia_validate_memory, cognia_validate_durable, cognia_validate_placement[_gpu], cognia_validate_monitoring, cognia_validate_learning and cognia_validate_transformer[_gpu];
• cognia_monitoring_serve — telemetry and command service with the bundled browser dashboard, and cognia_monitor — declarative system launcher;
• the desktop monitoring client: cognia_desktop.exe (native WebView2 window) on Windows, cognia-desktop.sh (browser launcher) on Linux;
• CDCT experiment, catalog, procurement and warehouse tools and Examples 23–29;
• the Agent Design Kit for AI agents: AGENT-GUIDE.md, llms.txt and Docs/agents/, and cognia_capabilities;
• the canonical Cognia grammar, runnable models, generators, experiment notes and smoke tests;
• only tiny datasets explicitly required by classic demos and regression tests;
• privacy and license documents.

On Windows the programs carry the .exe suffix.

Install or run portably

Windows. Extract the ZIP into a new directory. Run it from the bin directory, or install it for the current Windows user:

powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1

See the Windows installation guide.

Linux. Extract the archive anywhere; no installation step is needed:

tar -xzf Sensory-7.4.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd Sensory-7.4.0-linux-x64
./bin/Sensory

Or install the Debian package into /opt/Sensory:

sudo apt install ./Sensory-7.4.0-linux-x64.deb

See the Linux installation guide.

Previous releases

Previous versions remain available for reproducing older experiments. New projects should use 7.4.0 after the corresponding candidate is promoted. Runtime 1 networks built from a .cognia file since 7.1.0 start from different initial weights than in earlier versions.

Read the complete changelog before opening a saved network with a different runtime version. Runtime 1 checkpoints remain dimension- and version-sensitive and are not complete execution snapshots.

License and status

Cognia and Sensory are experimental research software. They are not safety-critical software and do not claim machine consciousness or general intelligence.

Noncommercial use is governed by the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 included in the archive. Commercial use requires a separate license. Third-party notices and privacy information are included in every package.

Contact: havelm3@centrum.cz