OpenAI Develops AI Music Generator to Rival Suno

A music-making tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is purportedly being developed by OpenAI. The article claims that the San Francisco-based AI business empire, which just released its AI browser recently, is now preparing to join the AI music market even though there are some AI music making tools which already exists. It was also claimed that the tool can produce instrumental music and can respond to both text and voice prompts. With the alleged change, the business will now face competition from Beatoven.ai, Udio, and Suno. When OpenAI will release this tool to the public and it is not clear if this will be accessible to all users generally globally.

The Information, a news media agency claims that the AI empire is working on a new AI tool that can produce music. In relation to the article, which cites persons with knowledge of the situation, the tool may also be used to add instruments to a vocal track and music to videos that are not manufactured or that are created by Sora. The AI tool will probably be powered by a native large language model (LLM) for music generation, however the report did not provide further detail to this.

OpenAI has concentrated in recent months on horizontally growing its services. The company also within this week has published an AI browser called ChatGPT Atlas, and it also debuted the Sora app, which provides AI-generated video creation with a social feed. It seems the corporation is now planning to access as many new markets as possible, given the alleged AI music tool that is now under development. The Public Benefit Corporation’s (PBC) formalisation, which expands its access to equity, may potentially be the cause of this recent drive.

The AI music generator is not well known, but according to the story, the AI empire, it is said to be collaborating with Juilliard School students to annotate the training data for the underlying AI model. The tool’s availability as a stand-alone product is also not known.

There is already an existing competition in the AI-generated music market. Players like Beatoven.ai, based in Bengaluru, Udio, based in New York City, and Suno, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The AI music sector is being dominated majorly by Suno in particular and thanks to its song generating product. A different article from The Information claims that the company’s yearly recurring revenue has almost quadrupled to $150 million, or about Rs. 1,320 crore. It will therefore be intriguing to observe whether OpenAI can make a name for itself in this market.

With respect to the ethical concerns, the competition between companies like Suno and other digital empires like Google that currently provide generative music solutions is anticipated to increase as a result of OpenAI’s move into the music creation market. Also discussions concerning creative ownership, copyright, and ethical issues have also been triggered by the creation of this instrument.

A number of music business figures have expressed worry about AI companies’ unfair compensation of artists, and Paul McCartney is one of those advocating for more regulations to safeguard human musicians. Meanwhile, fraudsters have used AI music algorithms to generate fake streaming income on Spotify and other platforms.

Looking at he amount of AI-generated content on Spotify which has increased dramatically in the last 12 months and some of the ffake bands, like The Velvet Sundown, have accumulated millions of views on websites like YouTube by effectively tricking fans into believing they are real. An AI program called Udio was used to create a parody song with contentious lyrics earlier this year. The song even rose to number three on Spotify’s viral song charts.