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Tencent Music Entertainment Group recently announced that it would acquire China's leading long audio platform, Himalaya, by paying $1.26 billion in cash and partial equity. This much-discussed merger not only reshaped the competitive landscape of China's audio market but also foretells a new trend of deep integration between "ear economy" and AI technology. According to the announcement, Tencent Music will pay a huge amount of cash and provide Class A ordinary shares worth up to 5.5686% of the total share capital to Himalaya and its founding shareholders in phases. After the transaction is completed, Himalaya will officially become part of Tencent Music.

In recent years, AI-generated music has flooded the YouTube platform, especially the popular 'lo-fi' music playlists. These playlists often use anime character thumbnails to create a relaxing and immersive atmosphere. However, with the rapid rise of AI music, many playlist creators have started labeling 'No AI' to ensure listeners enjoy truly human-created music. At the end of last year, TikTok music star Derrick Ji (Derric)

Recently, Suno, an artificial intelligence music creation platform, announced significant upgrades to its music editing tool. This update from Suno was posted on its official blog, amid copyright litigation with major record companies. These record companies, including Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, are in talks with Suno and its competitor Udio regarding the licensing of music recordings. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, and the image authorization service provider is MidJourney. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the record companies...

According to the latest report from Bloomberg, global renowned music companies including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are in talks with two artificial intelligence startups, Udio and Suno, regarding copyright licensing. The aim of this negotiation is to establish a framework to ensure that AI companies can reasonably compensate artists for the use of their works. These two companies, Udio and Suno, focus on helping emerging music artists create songs; by simply providing prompts describing sounds or song themes, they can generate audio recordings.

A new music creation tool named Riffle has recently sparked heated discussions in the industry. This platform designed specifically for music creators offers a one-stop solution for melody recording, lyric writing, instrument layering, and project management with its Infinite Canvas concept and powerful AI features. AIbase summarizes the latest information to help you gain an in-depth understanding of how Riffle is redefining the future of music creation. Infinite Canvas: Unleashing Creative Freedom The core highlight of Riffle lies in its Infinite Canvas design, providing freedom for music creation.

Google DeepMind has officially released its latest music generation model, Lyria2, marking another significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence for music creation. This new model, with its high-fidelity audio generation and professional-grade sound quality, provides musicians, producers, and creators with more powerful creative tools. Lyria2: High-fidelity sound quality, capturing the subtle beauty of music. Lyria2 represents DeepMind's latest advancement in music generation technology, offering significant improvements in sound quality and creative flexibility compared to previous models.

In the context of the increasing integration of AI technology into the entertainment industry, Kugou Music and DeepSeek, a leading domestic AI company, have established a strategic partnership. This collaboration leverages large language models to revolutionize music platforms, transforming them from mere "tool-based applications" into "intelligent entertainment hubs." This transformation is centered around four core AI functional modules that are comprehensively reshaping the entire music consumption experience, setting a new benchmark for AI and music integration.

YuE, an open-source AI music generation model based on Suno, is capable of producing high-quality vocals and instrumental accompaniments.

Under CEO Kakul Srivastava, music creation platform Splice is focused on providing better technology for music creators, not simply simplified AI tools. In a recent interview, Srivastava emphasized that true music creation is an artistic process, not a simple 'push-button' activity. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provided by Midjourney. Splice is known for its extensive sound effects and sample packs.

AbletonMCP is an innovative tool that connects the music production software Ableton Live with Claude AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling Claude to directly interact with and control Ableton Live. This integration unlocks prompt-based music creation, track production, and live session manipulation, offering a revolutionary approach to music production. The system primarily consists of two parts: an Ableton remote script and...

Sony Music has announced a large-scale takedown of AI-generated counterfeit music. Reports indicate over 75,000 tracks mimicking artists like Harry Styles have been removed. Sony executives suggest this is only the tip of the iceberg, with the current takedowns representing a fraction of the AI-generated music circulating. Current identification and removal methods rely heavily on manual screening, meaning the actual number of AI-generated songs in the market likely far surpasses those already deleted.