Suno Launches New AI Music Models Trained on Licensed Data Amid Ongoing Legal Challenges
Suno, an AI music model developer, has introduced a new family of models called Suno v6 trained using licensed data from major music labels like Warner Music Group and BMG. This comes as the company faces ongoing lawsuits over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted material in its previous models. The new models include three versions: base (for paying users), wild (experimental for ideation), and mini (faster, available to all). Suno plans to retire older models and is enhancing user flexibility with features like editing song parts via prompts or using text/images as references. The company also aims to create additional revenue streams by enabling remixes through a new program involving music labels. Despite these efforts, legal challenges from Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Jason Isbell, and others remain unresolved. Suno recently admitted training models on YouTube videos and has introduced watermarks and download limits for generated songs. Despite the controversies, Suno continues to attract significant investment, having raised over $819 million in funding.
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