Suno can generate songs from a text prompt or a phone recording — and its just-launched new model, V4, is the most powerful yet We tried out Suno's new music-generating model, which is getting scarily realisticGetty Images Even as it from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating model, has become the fifth most-used generative-AI service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is available today to paid subscribers, and will eventually reach all users. “I think it crosses into something I actively want to listen to,” says Suno co-founder Mikey Shulman.
“Instead of, like, something that I want to keep making it better.” Shulman is sitting in a brand-new studio space, complete with actual guitars, basses, and a high-end sound system, in the company’s equally new custom-built offices, which take up two floors — soon to be three — right by the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. “We had to make the model better to justify having bought the fancy speakers,” Shulman jokes.
As of February, the company had 12 or so employees; now they’re up to more than 50, with more to come. “It’s hard to compete with OpenAI for really talented researchers,” says Shulman, referring to the AI giant behind ChatGPT. “But the way we compete is if you want to learn to align [AI] models with human taste, there’s no better place to do it.
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