Meta's had a tough time getting people to buy into their VR Metaverse over the couple years, but all's not lost. The company has been making up for some of their missteps by offering free access to pre-trained models and open source artificial intelligence tools. Their move to introduce MusicGen in June 2023 was a direct challenge to Google's MusicLM team. Meta proved they could give users simple and controllable music generation based on any text description.During mid-March 2024, the music cop| AudioCipher
Celebrities lashed out at Apple this week in response to an advertisement for their new iPad Pro. The short promotional trailer depicted a trumpet, grand piano, guitar, and record player being slowly crushed by a hydraulic press. When the plates finally separated for the big reveal, all that remained was a thin, sleek Apple tablet. That didn't go over so well with artists in the anti-AI camp.Crush! | iPad Pro | AppleMany interpreted the ad as advocating for "crushing the arts" with technology. A| AudioCipher
Text-to-speech apps like Siri have been around for decades, but until recently they were never able to hold a tune. Recent improvements to AI voice models and AI generated music have given birth to AI singing voice generators. AI web apps like Suno and Riffusion are combining text-to-music prompt workflows with AI singing voices to perform any lyrics. Users enter a written description of the genre or style they want and have a song in 30-60 seconds. Behind the scenes, these kinds of text-to-sing| AudioCipher
Apple recently acquired a big AI music company. Here's what music producers can expect in the coming years.| AudioCipher
