Stability AI, gunning for a hit, launches an AI-powered music generator

Stability AI has launched Stable Audio, a web app that generates music from text prompts and that the company says is the first capable of creating "high-quality," 44.1 kHz music for commercial use. The tool, which Stability says uses a roughly 1.2-billion-parameter model built on latent diffusion, produces coherent audio up to about 90 seconds long. Pro users pay $11.99 per month for 500 commercializable tracks, while Stability's deal with the commercial music library AudioSparx, which supplied about 800,000 songs for training, leaves artist payments unspecified.