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Chinese tech giant Kunlun Tech launches what it claims is the ‘world’s first AI-powered music streaming platform.’
Kunlun Tech, a former investor in TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly, and parent company of web browser Opera, has launched what it calls the “world’s first AI-powered music streaming platform.” The Chinese company says its new Melodio service features “personalized, AI-generated music streams tailored to [users’] moods and scenarios.”
Melodio lets its users input text prompts like “mellow tunes for morning coffee,” or “energetic music for a long drive,” to “instantly craft a customized music stream that fits the occasion.”
“With endless streams of real-time, personalized music, Melodio caters to users’ every mood and scenario, enabling them to modify their prompts on the fly, switch between generated lyrics, and save or share their favorite moments for a truly transformative listening experience,” says Kunlun.
Alongside the AI streaming service, Kunlun has also launched an AI music creation platform called Mureka, which it 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 new business models for AIGC.”
Mureka’s “Create” page enables users to “input lyrics, reference tracks, and control music styles using the Style function.” The company asserts Mureka’s AI music “boasts unparalleled stability and controllability, allowing users to fine-tune sections like intros, verses, choruses, bridges, and outros with ease.”
Both products, the Melodio streaming service and Mureka music generator, are powered by Kunlun’s AI Music Generation Large Language Model called SkyMusic 2.0. The company claims SkyMusic 2.0 is “the industry’s first AI music model capable of consistently and stably generating [an] endless music feed in specific styles.”
SkyMusic was, according to Kunlun, the first “commercial-grade composing AI model in China,” which it says is able to process lyrics exceeding 500 words and product 6-minute, 4400Hz dual-channel stereo AI songs. It supports 31 languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and French, and supports lyric generation from melodies and text sources. Notably, Kunlun has not disclosed the data used to train its AI models.
The tech giant, which has a market value of $4.8 billion (34.49 billion Chinese yuan), boasts an average monthly active user base of nearly 400 million across the “AGI, AIGC, content distribution, metaverse, social entertainment, and gaming sectors.” Last summer, the company’s Star Group Interactive division acquired a stake in AI company Singularity AI in a deal worth $160 million. Following that acquisition, Kunlun then pumped $400 million into its Star Group division.
