Making Music with AI

Over the past year, we’ve all been talking about generating text and images with AI. But it feels like audio generation hasn't kept pace—or has it?

You may recall Universal Music intervening to halt the spread of a fabricated song by Drake and The Weeknd, created using AI, that gained viral attention earlier this year. That track still required an actual human singer for the vocals and a producer for the beat, with AI being used solely for lyric writing and voice alteration.

This is no longer the case. Thanks to Suno.ai, a startup initially focused on AI-generated voices, you can now produce full songs with only a small text prompt.

To hear an example, check out a song we generated titled "General Purpose," inspired by the prompt: "drum and bass music with lyrics about an AI training team.”

You can even use more complex prompts that include your own lyrics.

Suno v2.0, which we used for our creation, is free to use. Subscribers can upgrade to v3.0, which permits commercial use of all music. We predict that in the near future, platforms like Spotify might leverage their understanding of user preferences to generate personalised songs, potentially transforming the "Discover Weekly" feature into something even more unique to you.

For those eager to transform their ideas into music, Suno.ai helps you get ideas off paper and into your ears. Rock on.