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Meta releases AI-powered music generator

By Athik Saleh

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Create music with AI

Meta has developed an open-source AI model called MusicGen that can generate music from text prompts and melody.

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Prompts and melody

MusicGen is a transformer language model that can create 12 seconds of audio. Users also have the option to use reference audio to create music. 

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Training

MusicGen was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music, including 10,000 tracks and 390,000 instrument-only tracks from Shutterstock and Pond5.

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Availability

MusicGen's demo is available through Hugging Face's API. The code for MusicGen is also downloadable from GitHub but requires a GPU with 16GB of memory.

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Better than rivals

Meta aims to address the lack of quality in AI music generators with MusicGen. The AI model seems to have an advantage over rivals like Google's MusicLM. 

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