Google Has Impressive New Music AI. And No, You Can’t Have It.
MusicLM is Google's new AI model capable of generating rich music samples based on text prompts and melody input. But it won't be releasing to the public yet.
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I tend to mostly write about text-to-image AI, because pictures are static and I have the attention span of a…uh…what were we talking about?
But generative AI is making huge strides in other areas, including music.
I briefly mentioned OpenAI’s MuseNet and Harmonai (Dance Diffusion) in this post from October 2022. In late December, I wrote about Riffusion.
Well, they can all step aside, because there’s a new ‘Riff in town.
The sheriff’s name is MusicLM. It’s a music model made by Google that can compose entire tracks in seconds.
Let’s take a closer look at what MusicLM is capable of…and why we won’t get to play with it in the foreseeable future.
What is MusicLM?
It’s an AI algorithm that can compose music based on different types of input, including text prompts and melody samples.
You can check out the many examples right here. If …