Breaking news in the AI music world: Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman sits down with Billboard’s Kristin Robinson for the launch of Suno’s new V6 models, which he says were made “in partnership with the industry” for the first time. Though Suno is actively being sued by a number of music companies, like Universal, Sony, SOCAN, Koda and more, for copyright infringement, the AI music company has also announced three partnerships in the music biz — Warner Music Group, Believe and BMG — and V6 marks the first time Suno is sharing its revenue with industry partners. Shulman also shares that, later on, he believes these partnerships are laying the groundwork for future Suno products that let fans remix, sample and interact with artists’ music that choose to participate.
00:00 Breaking news: Suno partners with the music industry (V6 launch)
00:55 What is V6? V6 vs Wild vs Mini (free vs paid)
01:33 Revenue share for partners + “phase two” explained
02:13 What phase two could enable (artist opt-in remix/sampling)
03:08 Mikey: Suno’s mission + why this is “first of its kind”
05:02 Timeline + why interactive music is an ongoing rollout
06:37 How partners get paid (high-level) + new line of business
08:36 Artist consent required for remix/derivative products
09:20 What “V6 Wild” is for (creativity vs predictability)
11:18 How Suno built V6 with partners (execs, camps, studios, Spark)
15:08 Are these licensing deals? Mikey’s answer + licensing component
20:34 Download limits (free tier) + why Suno aligned with partners
23:58 Training data: licensed partner data + user interaction signals
25:58 Clarification: no unlicensed partner data in V6 training
29:46 BMG timing + when their data may be included
30:28 Wrap + The Next Episode of On the Record
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It’s so sad to go back and listen to tracks I generated on 4.5, 4.5+, 5 and 5.5 …they are worlds apart in terms of quality when compared to v6. …so very, very sad. 🪦 💐
No interest to interact with artists. SUNO should accommodate individuals non=artists or artists who just want to create their own music with their own ideas. I don’t want my songs to sound like someone else songs. The first line of my SUNO prompt is […generate my song that sounds like no others…..]
Cool!❤
Just another example of hoe big music companies are moving in to control what people hear including through Suno. Sad sell out of the people who supported Suno and made it rich.
I hope they have a heart and actually use it at least a few times. Humanity needs to develop and evolve as rapidly as possible across all fields, including music! We never know what tomorrow holds. While people on Earth often view money as the ultimate value, from the perspective of the cosmos, money, humanity, and even our entire planet are incredibly fragile and insignificant… We could face extinction at any moment. Since the future is unpredictable, we must advance and evolve as quickly as we can, music included. We need to look at the bigger picture for humanity instead of obsessing solely over money… The above may sound far-fetched, but the truth is that, in the face of the universe, we humans remain incredibly small and ignorant. 🙂
suno v5.5 was the best. They killed it. time to move on to a alternative v6 is just a muddy horrible sound
So we still have no idea what is actually coming.