When we first started embarking on our creative AI research sprint in October 2022, we were mesmerized by the quality and speed of AI models in the visual and text worlds, especially the likes of GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. In contrast, tools for AI music generation seemed to be falling behind when it came to access to high-quality, large-scale training datasets, leading to outputs that felt overly lossy or generic.

That gap is closing in real time: 10 new AI models for music and audio generation have been unveiled in the last month alone.

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