Suno licensing negotiations with Universal Music Group and Sony Music have stalled over a core disagreement: whether users can download and share AI-generated songs outside the platform.
ElevenLabs has announced on-premise and on-device deployment options for its voice AI platform, letting organizations run text-to-speech inference entirely within their own infrastructure.
Sync, the Y Combinator-backed lipsync startup, launched Sync-3 on April 6. The new model processes entire shots at once, producing 4K native output with built-in obstruction detection.
Google quietly launches Eloquent, a free Gemma-powered dictation app for iOS with offline transcription, filler word removal, and text transformation tools.
Sony AI has released Woosh, an open source sound effects foundation model supporting text-to-audio and video-to-audio generation.
OmniVoice is a zero-shot text-to-speech model supporting 600+ languages with voice cloning, an Apache 2.0 license, and inference 40x faster than real-time.
Deezer has licensed its AI-generated music detection technology to Hungarys EJI performers rights body. The platform flags over 60,000 AI tracks daily, with 39% of all uploads now involving AI.
ElevenLabs and IBM announced a partnership on March 25 to integrate 10,000+ voices across 70 languages into IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
Spotify launched Artist Profile Protection in beta on March 24, letting musicians approve or decline AI-generated music before it appears on their profile.
An open-source music model running on a $200 GPU now outscores Suno v5 on the SongEval benchmark. Here is what actually works in AI audio in 2026.
Stems Labs launched Flowtonik, a macOS DAW with conversational AI assistants for stem generation, mixing, and arrangement. Backed by ElevenLabs, it signals a new direction for AI music tools.
Stems Labs has launched Flowtonik, a macOS digital audio workstation with built-in AI assistants for stem generation, mixing, arrangement, and natural language editing.
ElevenLabs launched a Music Marketplace inside ElevenCreative where creators earn money each time their AI-generated tracks are licensed, with three pre-cleared commercial tiers.
BandM8 debuts at NVIDIA GTC with a music-to-music AI platform that generates real-time MIDI accompaniment from a single instrument.
ElevenLabs shipped major updates to Eleven Music including public song discovery and remixing, precise lyric timestamps, an inpainting API, and stem separation.
Hume AI has released TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual-Alignment), an open-source text-to-speech model that eliminates a persistent problem in AI speech synthesis: hallucinated words