The $4.8bn Chinese tech giant has just launched a full AI music streaming service – Global Music Business

There is a powerful new player in the world of AI music technology.

Chinese technology giant Kunlun Tech, with a market value of 34.49 billion Chinese Yuan ($4.8 billion)has launched what it claims is “the world’s first AI-powered music streaming platform”.

The company says it’s new melodies services of “personalized, AI-generated music designed [users’] feelings and circumstances”.

Kunlun is a major web browser company Opera and original owner of Grindr. It means that it has a relatively active monthly user average 400 million across “AGI, AIGC, information sharing, metaverse, social entertainment, and gaming”.

Kunlun is also a former investor in TikTok, Musical.ly. The company invested $20 million in Musical.ly before the app was acquired by ByteDance in 2017 for more than $800 million. Musical.ly merged with TikTok the following year.

Last summer, Kunlun’s Star Group Interactive unit acquired a stake in an AI company The unity of AI to a $160 million. After the agreement, Kunlun pumped $400 million in its Star Group division.

According to Kunlun, its new Melodio service allows users to enter messages such as “powerful music for a long drive” or “good morning coffee music.” It will “instantly create a customized music soundtrack that matches the scene”.

Added Kunlun in its announcement: “With endless messages of real-time music, personalized music, Melodio satisfies every mood and situation of users, enabling them to change their mood instantly view, change lyrics, and save or share favorite moments for a flexible listening experience.”

In addition to AI streaming service, Kunlun also launched AI music creation a platform called Mureka, which the company says “empowers music enthusiasts and professional artists to create and monetize their AI-generated music”.

Users can even sell their AI music through the Mureka Store, which Kunlun says will allow artists to “explore AIGC’s new business models”.

According to Kunlun, on Mureka’s ‘Create’ page, users “can add lyrics, reference songs, and control music styles using the Style mode”.

The company says Mureka’s AI music “boasts unparalleled stability and control, allowing users to easily edit elements such as intros, verses, songs, bridges and outros”.

Added Kunlun in its announcement: “Finished songs can be expanded or reproduced as needed, ensuring a limitless creative process. Users can display, listen, collect, share and to download AI-generated music, as they receive AI music certification.

“These platforms represent the future of music, where AI and human creativity combine to create new possibilities.”

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Kunlun added that “with Melodio and Mureka, Kunlun Tech is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in music consumption and creation”.

It added: “These platforms represent the future of music, where AI and human creativity combine to create new possibilities.”

Both products launched by Kunlun this week, the melodies streaming service and Mureka The AI ​​music generator, powered by Kunlun’s AI Music Generation Large Language Model (LLM), is called SkyMusic 2.0.

Kunlun says its SkyMusic 2.0 LLM stands as “the industry’s first AI music model capable of continuously generating an endless stream of music in a variety of ways”.

The company also says that LLM can process more than 500 words and generate AI tracks of 6 minutes, 4400Hz two stereo.

According to Kunlun, SkyMusic was “the first commercial AI innovation in China”.

It supports 31 languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and French, and supports the production of lyrics and text.

Kunlun has not disclosed the details on which its SkyMusic 2.0 LLM was trained.

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Kunlun Tech and SINGULARITY AI have jointly developed an LLM called SkyWork, which Kunlun said last year was “marked against ChatGPT” and “interacts with users in natural language”.

The company added that SkyWork’s AI development capabilities “can meet the needs of writing, knowledge questions and answers, code programming, logical deduction, mathematical calculations, etc.”

In this research paper describing Kunlun’s Skywork-13B family of large speech models, the research team cites “publicly available web pages” as the “primary source of training data”.

The research paper states that “this basic model of bilingualism is the most highly trained and publicly announced LLM of comparable size today”.

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Music rights holders will likely be following the launch of these two new AI platforms closely.

Just two months ago, controversial AI music startups Suno and Udio were sued by major record companies for allegedly training their systems to use record labels without permission.

In responses filed in US federal courts earlier this month, the two AI companies admitted to using copyrighted recordings from record companies that sued them.

Suno, for example, explained that “its training information includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality available on the open Internet, subject to paywalls, password protection, and other thus, they are combined with similar textual interpretations.”

Both Suno and Udio argued that their use of copyrighted material – Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group – falls under the “fair use” exemption of US copyright law.

On the other hand, in October last year, UMG sued AI company Anthropic for alleged “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics” through its Claude chatbot .Music Business Worldwide