model capable of generating complete, high-fidelity songs from text prompts wouldn’t arrive anytime soon, but now, an arms race is on between competing music-making models that do just that. Udio’s product came together remarkably quickly after its founding last December by four former researchers at Google’s AI-research wing, DeepMind. They’re backed by a range of tech heavyweights, including 16z and Instagram co-founder and CTO Mike Krieger.
There are some notable music names on Udio’s list of early investors as well, including Common, producer Tay Keith, industry vet Steve Stoute’s United Masters, and Will.i.am. In a press release, Will.i.am, who’s long been an evangelist for, was effusive about the company’s product: “This is a brand-new Renaissance and Udio is the tool for this era’s creativity,” said the artist, who was consulted during the development of the product.
Though neither company will directly confirm or deny it, there is substantial reason to believe that both Udio and Suno were trained on copyrighted music, without permission, a practice recentlyin an open letter from the Artists Rights Alliance, signed by artists from Stevie Wonder to Billie Eilish. The group reiterated its stance in a new statement to.
Unlike Suno, which is focused on putting music-making tools into the hands of average consumers, Udio also sees itself as a tool for musicians, and the founders say its creative abilities along those lines should ease creators’ concerns about their use of training data.
Suno currently generates two-minute-long music clips from its prompts. Udio is more customizable but also perhaps less intuitive to use, starting with 30-second segments that can be extended to users’ specifications. There are even more fine-grained controls that the company is already privately offering to musicians, and co-founder Sanchez says that any creators concerned about the company reach out to them. “We’re open for business,” he says. “Ring us up.
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