Soundful

AI music composer that creates original music for films, games, and commercials.

AI music generation platform that creates royalty-free music for content creators.

Suno launched in late 2023 as a text-to-song generator that creates full vocal tracks with melody, lyrics, and instrumentation from short prompts. It raised $125M at a $500M valuation in May 2024 and crossed 12M users by mid-2024. In June 2024 the RIAA sued Suno (and competitor Udio) for copyright infringement on behalf of Sony, Universal, and Warner. The product keeps shipping new versions and signups remain open while the litigation runs.

Udio launched in April 2024 from ex-DeepMind researchers and raised $10M from a16z, will.i.am, and Common. It generates studio-quality vocal tracks from text prompts and quickly became Suno's closest competitor. The RIAA sued Udio in June 2024 over alleged training on copyrighted recordings. Despite the litigation, Udio has continued shipping new models, including v1.5 with full-song generation and remixing.

Amper Music was an AI-assisted music composition platform that let users generate and customize royalty-cleared tracks for videos, podcasts, games, and other media. Shutterstock acquired the company in 2020.

VocaliD developed personalized synthetic voices for people who could not speak and later offered custom voice technology for brands. The company combined donated speech recordings with a recipient’s vocal characteristics.

Lyrebird developed AI systems for copying a person’s voice from short audio samples and generating speech in that voice. Descript acquired the Montreal startup in 2019 and incorporated its technology and team.

AI text-to-speech platform with ultra-realistic voices for podcasts, videos, and audiobooks.