AI Music

AI Music Showdown: Suno v4 vs Udio v1.1 vs DeepMind’s Lyria 2 – Which Hits the Right Notes?

Suno v4 arrived in late 2024, and by mid-2025 the v4.5 upgrade enabled songs up to 8 minutes in a single render with 48 kHz audio and features like Extend, Covers, and multi-part song structures. Suno originated in Cambridge, MA as a 2022 startup led by Mikey Shulman and secured a $125 million funding round in mid-2024 valuing the company at about $500 million, with roughly 12 million users by mid-2024. Suno’s licensing lets Pro and Premier subscribers monetize outputs commercially, while the free Basic plan restricts use to personal, non-commercial projects. Udio launched v1.0 in April 2024 and reached

14 August 2025

AI-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

A viral AI deepfake song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of streams before Universal Music Group demanded its removal. In June 2024, the RIAA and the Big Three labels (UMG, Sony, Warner) sued Suno and Udio for alleged en masse copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work. Google opened public access to MusicLM via its AI Test Kitchen in mid-2023, and MusicLM was trained on about 280,000 hours of music. Meta released MusicGen under the Audiocraft project in 2023, trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music and able to

2 July 2025

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From Beats to Hits: 10 Game-Changing AI Music Generators Dominating 2025

Suno AI generates complete songs with vocals and lyrics from a short text prompt in seconds, using its v4.5 model and offering multi-language vocals plus a Personas feature to remember your preferred style. Udio creates full songs with AI-sung vocals from natural-language prompts in about 30–60 seconds, with editing (extend, remix, inpaint) and stem separation, and Standard ($10/mo) and Pro ($30/mo) plans. Boomy lets anyone generate a track in seconds by selecting a genre or mood and can distribute to Spotify and other platforms with royalties; free tier allows unlimited generation but no downloads, Creator plan $9.99/mo, Pro plan $29.99/mo.

19 June 2025

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