Turn AI song-making from a copyright fight into a licensed product: fans remix, cover and create with real artists' voices and songs, and those artists get credit and paid.
PilotStage 3 of 5
Downloads off since Oct 2025; licensed subscription service still unlaunched as of late Sept 2026.
Updated 9 Apr 2026·Checked 11 Oct·0 updates this week
Milestones
Next · Launch licensed subscription service
Public beta launches10 Apr 2024Complete.
Labels sue Udio and Suno over training dataJun 2024Complete.
Universal settlement; downloads switched off29 Oct 2025Complete.
Relaunch keeps slippingPromised for 2026 and still not out by late September; current users cannot download what they made.
Sony has no dealWithout the third major label, a large share of popular music stays off-limits and the lawsuit continues.
Physics limits
Models can echo their trainingGenerative models can reproduce close copies of songs they learned from, so filters and fingerprinting are needed on every output.
Long-range musical structureA song must keep melody, lyrics and form consistent for minutes; small errors over thousands of audio steps make coherence hard.
How it works
4 parts
Prompt
Describe the song
A user types a style, mood or lyrics idea; the model generates a full track with singing and instruments.
Licensed base
Trained on authorised music
The relaunch model learns only from recordings and songs that labels and publishers have licensed.
Opt-in artists
Remix with real voices
Fans can make covers and remixes using voices and songs of artists who chose to take part, who are credited and paid.
Walled garden
Stream, don't download
Creations stay inside the app as streams, and fingerprinting tracks what was made from what.
AI music generation, licensed with Universal and Warner
Udio makes complete songs, vocals included, from a text prompt. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, it settled with Universal and Warner and is rebuilding as a licensed fan-creation service.
The first AI music app to settle with a major label: Universal (Oct 2025), then Warner, Merlin and Kobalt.
Downloads have been off since Oct 2025 while it builds a licensed service; Sony is still suing.
The planned service lets fans remix and cover songs by artists who opt in, with credit and pay.