Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In today’s issue: The small business owners managing whole armies of AI employees…Meta keeps delaying the release of its new AI Model to developers…How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits.
Yesterday, AI music generator Suno announced a new $400 million funding round at a $5.4 billion valuation, the latest sign that investors believe AI-generated music is here to stay. Ironically, just a few days earlier, I was sitting in a 14th-century French château in the Loire Valley with a dozen other songwriters, geeking out over lyrics, melodies, and rhyme schemes at a bucket-list retreat.
The contrast, of course, is striking: On one side, a startup built on the idea that anyone can create a song in seconds. On the other, people traveling across the ocean to spend a week doing it the slow way.
But after spending the week far away from Silicon Valley, both physically and metaphorically, I’m not convinced either vision settles the bigger questions about AI music.
Remarkably convincing songs in seconds
