{"id":460100,"date":"2026-05-21T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:21:08","slug":"stability-ai-launches-its-latest-fully-licensed-music-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460100\/","title":{"rendered":"Stability AI launches its latest, fully-licensed music model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stability AI is one of the AI companies that has steered firmly away from using commercial music without permission to train its music models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2023\/09\/13\/stable-diffusion-maker-launches-stable-audio-text-to-music-ai\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">It used production music for the first version of its Stable Audio tool<\/a>, which was focused on creating short samples rather than full songs. However, this week\u2019s Stable Audio 3.0 can generate tracks up to six minutes long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stability.ai\/news-updates\/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">this is a family of four models rather than just one<\/a>: 3.0 Small SFX can generate sound effects \u2018on-device\u2019\u00a0\u2013\u00a0meaning it runs on smartphones and laptops. 3.0 Small can generate full-music clips up to two minutes long, on devices too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the 3.0 Medium and 3.0 Large models that can do more, boosting quality as well as the maximum track length. All bar the Large model are \u2018open-weight\u2019, which means they can be downloaded and built on by developers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to foster the same kind of community-driven innovation in audio that we sparked in image generation with the launch of Stable Diffusion,\u201d explained the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stability AI has recently signed licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, and this week brings more news on an industry-relations tip. The company has appointed Ethan Kaplan as its head of audio product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaplan has a long history in the digital-music space, having held executive roles at WMG, Fender and Live Nation Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stability AI is one of the AI companies that has steered firmly away from using commercial music without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[218,61,60,18114,80],"class_list":["post-460100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-stability-ai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}