Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
The Verge • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Suno's new v6 AI music model is the first developed with support from the record industry, using licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG, Believe, and user data, though the full provenance of the training data remains unclear.
- The release includes three versions: v6 (standard), v6-wild (for unpredictable "happy accidents"), and v6-mini (a free, faster, and simpler model), with all showing significant improvements in genre recognition.
- Despite improvements, v6 still cannot produce intentionally imperfect or dissonant music, often ignoring prompts for off-key or out-of-tune elements and maintaining harmonic and rhythmic precision.
- New features allow users to edit specific parts of a song via plain language chat without regenerating the entire track, and v6 can combine multiple elements from a user's library and generate music from images, video, or other audio inputs.
- Suno v6 begins rolling out immediately, with plans to retire previous models in the future.
