Music generator ProducerAI joins Google Labs

The generative AI music instrument ProducerAI will change into a part of Google Labs, the corporate announced on Tuesday.

Backed by The Chainsmokers, the ProducerAI platform permits customers to write down pure language requests — one thing like “make a lofi beat”– to generate music. It makes use of Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation mannequin, which might flip textual content and even picture inputs into audio outputs.

Google introduced final week that its Lyria 3 capabilities could be launched into the flagship Gemini app, however ProducerAI makes it doable for customers to speak with the AI mannequin extra prefer it’s a “collaboration companion,” to make use of the phrases of Elias Roman, Google Labs’ Senior Director of Product Administration.

“ProducerAI has allowed me to create in new methods,” Roman wrote in a weblog put up. “I’ve experimented with new style blends, expressed how I really feel with personalised birthday songs for my family members, and made customized exercise soundtracks for myself and mates.”

Google additionally shared that three-time Grammy-winning rapper Wyclef Jean used the Lyria 3 mannequin and Google’s Music AI Sandbox on his current music “Back From Abu Dhabi.”

“This isn’t only a machine the place you’re clicking a button 100 occasions, and then you definitely’re accomplished. It’s a cautious type of curation the place you’re going by means of and saying, ‘Oh, I believe that’s one thing we are able to use,’” mentioned Jeff Chang, Director of Product Administration at Google DeepMind, in a video the corporate put out.

Jean recollects desirous to know what a flute would sound like in a observe he already recorded, and having the ability to use Google’s instruments to shortly add a flute sound to the combo.

“What I would like everyone to know […] is you’re within the period the place the human needs to be probably the most artistic,” Jean mentioned within the video. “There’s one factor that you’ve got over the AI: a soul. And there’s one factor that AI has over you: the infinite data.”

AI within the music trade

Some musicians have ardently opposed using AI instruments within the music-making course of, because it’s nearly a given {that a} generative AI instrument was educated on copyrighted information from artists with out their consent. Tons of of musicians, together with stars like Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and Jon Bon Jovi, signed an open letter in 2024 calling on tech firms to not undermine human creativity with AI music era instruments.

A cohort of music publishers additionally not too long ago sued the AI firm Anthropic for $3 billion, claiming that the corporate illegally downloaded greater than 20,000 copyrighted songs, together with sheet music, music lyrics, and musical compositions. (Anthropic was already ordered by the court docket to supply a $1.5 billion settlement to authors whose books had been pirated for AI coaching.)

Different artists, nonetheless, have embraced the potential of this expertise as a approach to enhance audio high quality, somewhat than as a artistic support.

Paul McCartney used AI-powered noise discount programs — the type of expertise that permits Zoom or FaceTime to dam out undesirable background noises in your video calls — to scrub up a decades-old, low-quality John Lennon demo. The ensuing “new” Beatles observe, “Now and Then,” gained a Grammy in 2025.

In the meantime, AI music era instruments like Suno have created artificial music that sounds actual sufficient to high charts on Spotify and Billboard. Telisha Jones, a 31-year-old in Mississippi, used Suno to show her (supposedly natural) poetry into the viral R&B music “How Was I Supposed To Know” and signed a report cope with Hallwood Media in a deal reportedly price $3 million.

The legislation stays unclear on the legality of utilizing copyrighted works as coaching information — one federal choose, William Alsup, dominated final yr that coaching on copyrighted information is authorized, however pirating it isn’t.