Mikey Shulman, the CEO and co-founder of Suno, can see a future where the Venn diagram of music creators and consumers becomes one big circle. The AI music generation tool trying to democratize music has been making waves in the AI community ever since they came out of stealth mode last year. Suno users can make a song complete with lyrics, just by entering a text prompt, for example, “koto boom bap lofi intricate beats.” You can hear it in action as Mikey, Sarah, and Elad create a song live in this episode.
In this episode, Elad, Sarah, And Mikey talk about how the Suno team took their experience making at transcription tool and applied it to music generation, how the Suno team evaluates aesthetics and taste because there is no standardized test you can give an AI model for music, and why Mikey doesn’t think AI-generated music will affect people’s consumption of human made music.
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Show Notes:
0:00 Mikey’s background
3:48 Bark and music generation
5:33 Architecture for music generation AI
6:57 Assessing music quality
8:20 Mikey’s music background as an asset
10:02 Challenges in generative music AI
11:30 Business model
14:38 Surprising use cases of Suno
18:43 Creating a song on Suno live
21:44 Ratio of creators to consumers
25:00 The digitization of music
27:20 Mikey’s favorite song on Suno
29:35 Suno is hiring