# AI music
Latest news and articles about AI music
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Google's Gemini Adds Lyria 3: AI That Turns a Sentence or Photo Into a 30‑Second Song
Google has added Lyria 3, a music generation model, to its Gemini app enabling 30‑second songs from text or images and integrating with YouTube Shorts. The move raises competitive pressures on streaming platforms, offers new tools for creators, and revives questions about copyright, attribution and monetization of AI‑generated music.
MiniMax’s Music 2.5 Sparks Hong Kong AI Rally — Signal of China’s Shift from Model Hype to Vertical Commercialisation
MiniMax’s launch of Music 2.5 — a music-generation model with stronger structural control and vocal fidelity — triggered sharp gains in Hong Kong AI stocks, highlighting a market pivot toward application-ready AI. Combined with open-source and deployment-focused releases from other domestic players, the episode underscores a broader shift in China’s AI industry from model-size competition to vertical, engineering-led commercialisation.
China’s Kunlun Tiangong Aims to Build an ‘AI Spotify’ Abroad as Music Models Hit a 2026 Inflection Point
Kunlun Tiangong founder Zhou Yahui says the company’s Mureka V8 music model marks a 2026 inflection point for AI-composed music and plans to launch an overseas, Spotify-like AI music platform. The firm will avoid direct competition with China’s ByteDance and Tencent, collaborate domestically, and focus overseas on productising AI-generated music via creator tools, a consumer app and APIs. Zhou argues AI music and short-form AI dramas could be the first major categories disrupted by native AI platforms in the next 1–3 years.