Suno Launches First AI Music Models ‘in Partnership With the Music Industry’
Categoria: Musica
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.
Por Billboard | 09/09/2026
Suno launched v6, its latest batch of AI music models on Wednesday (Sept. 9) — its first “in partnership with the music industry,” as the company says. Suno, which was recently valued at $5.4 billion, also announced that in the future it will be launching products to provide AI-enabled remixing, sampling and other derivative features for music from participating partners. The news comes just hours after Suno inked its latest music partnership with French giant Believe . Alongside Warner Music Group and BMG, Suno’s two other music industry allies, Believe’s participating music will train the v6 models, along with what’s called “user inputs.” On a special bonus episode of Billboard On the Record, Mikey Shulman , CEO and co-founder of Suno, explains the training process and how user input plays into it. Related Suno Inks ‘Strategic Partnership’ With Believe Billboard to Add Smart Media Albums As Chart-Eligible Sales Formats Duane 'Keffe D' Davis Gives First Interview After Tupac Shakur Murder Conviction “When users make a song, they will implicitly tell us whether it is good or bad — or more accurately, [Suno] will give users two songs and they will implicitly tell us one of those is better than the other,” Shulman says. “We are able to take that signal and learn from it what makes a song particularly catchy, particularly good and use that information about these differences between songs to steer our models toward making music better.” Jack Dolby , chief product officer at Suno, clarifies that while Suno’s music industry partners will receive a revenue share for their contributions to Suno, it’s not in exchange for training. “We consider this [the] partnership launching, and that’s why the payment starts,” Dolby says. “But it’s not because of the training data or the way that we built the model itself. It’s actually everything else the part the partnership enables in the future… I think the wrong way to think about these deals is that these deals are about making our models better. It’s not really about the data.” According to Suno, there are three products within this new roll out — v6, v6 Wild and v6 Mini — all of which are said to be the fastest and highest audio quality of any of their models to date. Suno will also retire its previous models, and as of Sept. 3, the company has significantly limited downloads of its music — all of which were first promised in Suno’s partnership with WMG in late 2025. A blog post about v6 details some of the new features available, including editing part of an existing song using plain language, building a mashup from multiple sources in one request, generating music from text, audio, images and video and more. Despite Suno’s growing number of deals with music companies like BMG, WMG and Believe, Suno is being sued by a number of players in the