Suno Launches First AI Models ‘in Partnership with the Music Industry’ – Billboard

Trending on Billboard Suno launched v6, its latest batch of AI music models on Wednesday (Sept. 9) — its first “in partnership with the music industry,” as the company says. Suno, which was recently valued at $5.4 billion, also announced that in the future it will be launching products to provide AI-enabled remixing, sampling and other derivative features for music from participating partners. The news comes just hours after Suno inked its latest music partnership with French giant Believe. Alongside Warner Music Group and BMG, Suno’s two other music industry allies, Believe’s participating music will train the v6 models, along with what’s called “user inputs.” On a special bonus episode of Billboard On the Record, Mikey Shulman, CEO and co-founder of Suno, explains the training process and how user input plays into it. Related “When users make a song, they will implicitly tell us whether it is good or bad — or more accurately, [Suno] will give users two songs and they will implicitly tell us one of those is better than the other,” Shulman says. “We are able to take that signal and learn from it what makes a song particularly catchy, particularly good and use that information about