Suno is one of two music-generated artificial intelligence companies being sued by major record labels for using copyrighted music to train its models without permission. “A new era of artificial intelligence music” generation.
The company also recently announced that it has named jack brodyformer product lead breakserving as its chief product officer.
While Suno has so far been known for its ability to quickly generate entire songs from text prompts, the new Suno V4 is not just aimed at aspiring music creators, but also content creators, game developers and marketers.
Suno V4 can “create unique background music for videos, podcasts and social media content,” the company said on a webpage introducing the new tool. It can also produce “dynamic soundtracks and sound effects for gaming experiences,” including background music, interactive music, sound effects, and ambient sounds.
Finally, for marketers, V4 offers “professional audio solutions for marketing and presentations,” including jingles, commercial background music, and music for corporate videos and brand identity.
In other words, from a music industry perspective, Suno, having entered the world of recorded music, is now also competing with simultaneous licensing and production of music.
Perhaps the biggest achievement of Suno V4, however, is that Artificially generated sounds. In recent days, audio clip Content purportedly generated by V4 has appeared on social media The vocals are indistinguishable From human voices.
according to Christopher WidowertA Munich entrepreneur who runs The AI Musicpreneur says the Suno V4 “will fundamentally shake up the music industry.”
Some in the music industry would argue that Suno did this before V4 was released. The company’s user base has expanded to 12 million people, up from 10 million last spring when Suno announced it was raising funds $125 million The valuation obtained from investors is US$500 million.
Suno offers a free version, which allows users to create a limited number of tracks, and a paid version, which offers unlimited tracks and gives users full rights to the music they create.
It was over copyright issues that the music industry became dissatisfied with Suno. In June, record companies under three major music majors— Sony Music Entertainment, universal music groupand Warner Music Group – Suing Suno and another artificial intelligence music generator, sharealleging that the two companies trained their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted music without authorization, and that Suno and Udio’s artificial intelligence tools created music that essentially copied existing copyrighted music.
In their response to the lawsuit, Suno and Udio more or less acknowledged that their AI models may have ingested copyrighted music during training, but they argued that such pairings were copyrighted under U.S. copyright law. The use of materials is “fair use”. This defense — which has also been invoked by other AI companies sued for copyright infringement — has yet to be tested in court.
On Wednesday (November 13), Suno said it had hired Jack Brody as chief product officer. Suno wrote on his blog that Brody, a former product chief at Snapchat maker Snap Inc., will “oversee product and design as we work to shape the future of music and make it accessible to a growing audience.”
“I’m extremely excited to join Suno on this journey to reimagine how the world creates and experiences music.”
Jack Brody, Suno
“I’m incredibly excited to join Suno on this journey to reimagine how the world creates and experiences music. The team’s creativity and unwavering dedication are inspiring, and I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to help realize this vision,” said Bu Roddy said.
Brody’s hiring comes less than a month after Suno announced the Grammy-winner and producer as an artist Timbaland Joined the company as a strategic advisor. Timbaland partnered with Suno “a few months” after Suno said he “became a top user of the platform.”
In July, Suno released a mobile app for Apple devices.global music business
