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
The ultimate collaborator in music | Music AI SandboxGoogle announced their new Music AI Sandbox tool on May 14th 2024 during its annual I/O developer conference. The promotion included endorsements from music industry heavyweights like Wyclef Jean, Mark Rebillet, and Donald "Childish Gambino" Glover. The artists focused on the value of writing faster and with less hassle. Gambino was quoted saying "You can make a mistake faster. That’s all you really want at the end of the day, at least in...| AudioCipher
Riffusion is an AI-powered text-to-song generator, best compared to Suno and Udio. Like those apps, Riffusion takes in lyrics and descriptive music prompts to generate songs with AI vocalists. The company launched their initial app version in December 2022, followed by a $4M seed round. They published a V2 web app in October 2023, scrapped it in early 2024 after being eclipsed by Suno's superior product. In July 2024, they released a mobile app that centered around an image-to-song generation ex| AudioCipher
Suno AI is the most controversial and polarizing generative AI music company in the world. They have been accused of stealing intellectual property from artists without remunerating labels, diluting the revenue streams from DSPs like Spotify and devaluing music as a whole. On the other hand, Suno was the first generative AI music app to show the world what this technology was truly capable of. No former competitor came anywhere near to compositional variety and quality of Suno. They challenged l| AudioCipher
