{
  "id": 6417049,
  "title": "Suno Launches First AI Music Models ‘in Partnership With the Music Industry’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/suno-launches-first-ai-music-models-in-partnership-with-the-music",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-09T11:57:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-launches-ai-music-models-partnership-with-music-biz/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Suno, the AI music startup valued at $5.4 billion, launched its latest batch of AI music models, v6, on September 9 in partnership with the music industry. This marks the first time Suno has collaborated with music partners. In the future, Suno will offer AI-enabled remixing, sampling, and derivative features for music from participating partners. The company recently inked a music partnership with French giant Believe, alongside Warner Music Group and BMG. Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman explained that users' feedback will help the company learn what makes a song catchy and good, which will guide the development of the v6 models. Jack Dolby, Suno's chief product officer, clarified that the revenue share for music industry partners is not related to training data but enables additional features in the future. Suno's new rollout includes three products: v6, v6 Wild, and v6 Mini, all of which boast the fastest and highest audio quality among their models. The company will retire its previous models and has limited downloads of existing music. Suno faces lawsuits from various music industry players, including Universal Music Group and Sony Music, accusing the company of copyright infringement.",
  "summary": "To explain Suno's new v6 models and how they are trained, CEO Mikey Shulman returns to music business podcast Billboard On the Record for an exclusive video interview.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}