AI music platform Suno has launched its new v6 model family, including v6, v6-wild and the free v6-mini, while retiring all of its previous models at the same time. The company says v6 is designed for more stable and controllable output, while v6-wild is built for more randomness and experimental results. The release also marks Suno’s first model developed in cooperation with music companies including Warner Music, BMG and Believe, and its first use of licensed music in training. The update, however, has drawn a weak early response from users. According to the source material, some long-time users said v6 sounds duller than v5 and v5.5, with muddier vocals and songs that feel more homogeneous. A number of users even asked for the older models to be brought back. The launch comes after earlier tensions between Suno and music companies, with Warner previously suing the company and Believe at one point barring distribution of songs generated by Suno.

Suno on Wednesday rolled out its new v6 model family, marking the first time the AI music company has trained a product in partnership with major record and distribution companies and set up royalty payments tied to user-generated songs. Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann-owned BMG Rights Management, and independent music platform Believe, along with TuneCore artists, are part of the training pipeline. Suno did not disclose how much rights holders will receive per track. Chief Product Officer Jack Brody told Bloomberg the release marked a new chapter for the company. He said v6 blocks users from entering real artist names in prompts, a departure from earlier versions, and will replace older models that did not share revenue with rights holders. The company also said the new models are faster, produce higher-quality output, and support song generation from audio, images, or video, with mixed genres and source materials inside a single prompt. At the same time, Suno remains in litigation with Universal Music and Sony Music, which have not reached licensing deals with the company. Weeks before Suno closed its $400 million Series D in June 2026 at a $5.4 billion valuation, the two music groups asked the court to add more than 61,000 songs to their complaint. The dispute continues to center on whether using copyrighted music to train AI qualifies as fair use.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, according to The Verge, seeking damages tied to "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works. The complaint alleges that Anthropic illegally downloaded, scraped, and distributed copyrighted material to develop and train its Claude family of AI models. Plaintiffs are seeking up to $150,000 for each work at issue, plus up to $25,000 for each alleged removal of identifiable copyright management information. The lawsuit also names Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The filing alleges that Mann used BitTorrent to download more than 5 million pirated books and that employees downloaded at least 2 million items from Pirate Library Mirror. It also claims Anthropic scraped lyrics from sites including MusixMatch and LyricFind. The Verge report said Anthropic recently reached a $1.5 billion settlement with the publishing industry in a separate case and is also facing multiple lawsuits from Universal Music Group, Concord, ABKCO, BMG, and Round Hill Music.

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