Overview
- WMG and Udio will launch a subscription platform next year using models trained on licensed recordings, with participating artists and songwriters credited and paid.
- Udio says it will add protections such as fingerprinting and filtering, allow remixes, covers, and new songs using approved voices and compositions, and maintain a closed system during the transition.
- Universal Music Group settled with Udio in October, leaving Sony Music as the only major still litigating against the startup.
- Separately, Universal, Sony, and Warner each signed licensing deals with AI startup Klay, the first company to secure agreements with all three majors for a service trained solely on licensed music.
- Rival AI platform Suno remains the target of major-label lawsuits even as it raised $250 million at a $2.45 billion valuation this week.