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UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UDIO ANNOUNCE UDIO’S FIRST STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS FOR NEW LICENSED AI MUSIC CREATION PLATFORM – UMG https://www.universalmusic.com/universal-music-group-and-udio-announce-udios-first-strategic-agreements-for-new-licensed-ai-music-creation-platform/
OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-generating-ai-music-potential-rivalry-startup-suno
Cartesia has just released Sonic-3, their new flagship Text to Speech model for realtime conversation Sonic-3 delivers Text to Speech streaming with built-in prosodic elements such as laughter, as well as emotions like surprise and curiosity. The new model supports 42 languages, https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1983879759194157194
State space architecture for state of the art voice model!”” / X https://x.com/tri_dao/status/1983229052082086231
It looks like AI music is following the same path as AI text: 1) Appears to have passed the Turing Test, people are only 50/50 in identifying older Suno vs. human songs (but 60/40 when two songs are the same genre) 2) Same fast development, new models are getting better quickly. https://x.com/emollick/status/1981501021320053020
A weird gap in the Google AI line-up is between the Gemini research tools and NotebookLM. Gemini lets you do Deep Research, but only a subset of other NotebookLM features, while NotebookLM won’t let you trigger a deep research report or do other types of AI interactions.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1983611024113856610
OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/openai-reportedly-developing-new-generative-music-tool/
