Recently, a model named GOT-OCR2.0 has attracted widespread attention in the industry. This model is capable of handling not only conventional text recognition tasks but also complex content such as formulas, tables, and sheet music, making it an all-around player in the OCR field. The core advantage of GOT-OCR2.0 lies in its diverse functionality and outstanding performance. Firstly, the model primarily supports the recognition of Chinese and English characters, and can be further fine-tuned to extend to more languages. This language adaptability enables GOT-OCR2.0 to be utilized in international applications.

Recently, the globally renowned text-to-music model Suno has unveiled a stunning new feature - 'Covers', which means that users can simply press a button to cover songs in any style! Imagine being able to upload a popular song to Suno, and the AI will identify elements such as the score, instruments, rhythm, and melody, and recreate it in your chosen new style. The magic of this technology lies in the fact that while the overall rhythm and melody may change, the core essence of the original song is still preserved.

Recently, Yinfen AI, a music platform under Kunlun Wanwei, has launched a new feature - custom 'Lead Singer', allowing users to select the appropriate singer voice based on the style of their musical works.

During the recently concluded MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), viewers were not only captivated by the star-studded performances but also by the stunning outfits. To allow fans to replicate these red carpet looks, Paramount partnered with tech company Shopsense AI to launch a new technology. This technology gives viewers the chance to snap photos of outfits they love during the live show and find similar clothing through the Shopsense system.

This article reports on a rare case in the music industry, where North Carolina musician Michael Smith is accused of fraudulently using artificial intelligence and bot accounts to generate over ten million dollars in illegal income from streaming platforms. He collaborated with an accomplice to purchase AI-generated songs and artificially inflated play counts on platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music to reach billions of plays. Smith registered bot accounts under fake names to distribute traffic.

Michael Smith, an American musician, has been charged with multiple offenses for allegedly using artificial intelligence to generate music and manipulating streaming numbers on music platforms to siphon over $10 million in royalties. From 2017 to 2024, Smith created hundreds of thousands of computer-generated songs using AI technology and boosted stream counts through automated bots, illegally earning approximately $1.2 million in royalties each year. He collaborated with others to fabricate stream counts through fake accounts, stealing royalties that rightfully belong to legitimate musicians and composers. Although charged with telecommunications fraud...

Kunlun Wanwei Technology Co., Ltd. has launched the music platform 'Yinfeng AI', which utilizes AI technology to automatically generate complete songs in various styles, lasting 4 minutes, based on the text provided by users, offering a personalized music creation experience. The platform also features local generation and extension functions, allowing users to make personalized adjustments to their musical works, and supports music trading, combining artistic creation with commercial value. Collaborating with platforms like Kuaishou to enhance the dissemination of musical works. As a new breakthrough in AI music creation, Yinfeng AI provides a fresh creative avenue for music enthusiasts and creators.

After MiniMax launched its first AI HD video generation model, its subsidiary Conch AI has added the features of 'AI Music Creation' and 'AI Video Generation'. Users can automatically generate music by creating lyrics and selecting music styles, while videos can be generated simply by inputting creative descriptions. The music feature offers a variety of styles, but the quality of the generated music is average; the video feature can automatically create content based on input descriptions, presenting a poetic effect, although the image quality still has room for improvement. Currently, these two features are available for users to experience at no cost for a limited time.

The AI app RAiDiO.FYI launched by will.i.am aims to provide a 24/7 creative companion for creative individuals. This app simulates a radio experience through an AI chatbot, allowing deep conversations with users, customizing exclusive radio shows based on interests, and providing real-time and historical information. Its underlying technology is powered by IBM's Watson AI, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of information while reminding users to maintain critical thinking. In addition to radio features, RAiDiO.FYI also integrates messaging.

Melodisco is an open-source AI music player that focuses on personalized music experiences. It features a collection of 300,000 AI songs, with capabilities for AI music generation, smart recommendations, and diverse playlist management. Users can explore charts like the trending, popular, and new release charts, and use random roaming to discover new songs. It supports song favorites, recent play history, and import and share functionalities. In terms of player component design, it offers sequential, random, and single-loop play modes, along with progress and volume control. It integrates the Stripe payment system and supports Vercel and Dock.

On August 14th, Beijing time, Kunlun Wanwei officially launched Melodio, the world's first AI streaming music platform, along with the AI music commercial creation platform Mureka. Both products are powered by Kunlun Wanwei's latest self-developed DiT (Diffusion Transformer) architecture music model, Skymusic2.0, marking a new height in AI music creation technology.

Meta (formerly Facebook) and Universal Music Group (UMG) have expanded their long-standing music licensing agreement aimed at enhancing copyright protection while addressing solutions for the application of AI technology in the music field. The new agreement allows users to freely share songs from UMG's music library across Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads, and WhatsApp, ensuring that users can enjoy music while avoiding copyright infringement.

Meta has signed a multi-year partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG) aimed at expanding the use of music content across Meta's social applications, including Threads and WhatsApp, and addressing the impact of unauthorized AI-generated content on artists. This collaboration deepens the partnership that began in 2017, allowing users to create and share music content more widely on these platforms. The agreement seeks to address copyright issues, provide protection for artists, and enable music to circulate again on the platforms, fostering user engagement with audio content.

The Doubao AI Assistant under ByteDance has recently launched a new feature—music generation. Users can simply click on 'Music Generation' in the Doubao app or PC version, enter keywords or custom lyrics, and select the corresponding music style, atmosphere, and vocal type to generate a unique song. This feature aims to help users realize their dreams of music creation and express their emotions and stories through music.

Amazon Music has launched the 'Themes' feature, utilizing AI technology to help users discover other podcast content related to specific episodes. By analyzing podcast transcriptions and descriptions, the feature identifies key themes and generates tags, allowing users to simply click on a tag to view a list of related podcasts. This feature is available only to users in the United States and requires the latest version of the Amazon Music mobile app. Amazon aims to enhance personalized content recommendations and improve user experience, competing with rival Spotify. As the podcast market grows, personalized recommendations are becoming a user demand.

AI startup Seele, founded by former NetEase Cloud Music Vice President Wang Shimu, has launched the emotional companion robot Koko AI, based on its self-developed 3D multimodal large model EVA-01. Koko AI offers users a new experience of face-to-face interaction with virtual characters by integrating 3D modeling, animated performance, and voice chat technologies. The product makes virtual characters more vivid, enables natural human-computer interaction, and supports users in communicating with characters through text or voice, providing intelligent and empathetic responses. Users can also customize the experience according to their personal preferences.

ControlMM is an innovative technical framework developed jointly by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tencent, aimed at addressing challenges in multi-modal full-body motion generation. This framework supports multi-modal inputs from text, speech, and music to generate full-body motions that match the content. It employs the ControlMM-Attn module to process dynamic and static human topology in parallel, achieving efficient movement knowledge learning. A phased training strategy is adopted, progressing from text to motion pre-training, then to multi-modal control adaptation, ensuring the model's effectiveness under various conditions.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a lawsuit against music generation startups Udio and Suno, accusing them of using copyrighted music to train AI models. Suno admitted to using copyrighted songs for training and claims that this constitutes fair use. However, the RIAA argues that these actions do not align with the principles of fair use and threaten artists' livelihoods. The ruling in this case could set an important precedent for the AI music training field, affecting the future of related companies and industry regulations.

Sponge Music is an AI-based music creation tool designed to simplify the music production process, enabling everyone to easily realize their musical dreams. By simply inputting inspiration or lyrics, the AI generates music works, providing a convenient creation method and rich customization features that support various music styles and adjustment options. Sponge Music supports two creation modes: Inspiration Creation and Custom Creation, allowing users to input ideas or lyrics and select genres, moods, and timbres, generating music with one click. Testing shows that the music generated in Custom Creation mode yields good results, and Chinese processing can...

An AI-rewritten and performed version of 'Fairy Tale Town' has gone viral on Douyin, garnering over 730,000 likes. The AI version merges reality and fantasy, attracting considerable attention with its absurd lyrics and remarkable vocal techniques, provoking public reflection on AI creativity. The lyrics feature scenes like 'Winnie the Pooh picking spicy strips' and 'SpongeBob playing mahjong,' contrasting sharply with the original version and showcasing AI's unique potential in music creation. This viral success not only highlights the infinite possibilities of AI in the creative field but also reflects the public's broad interest in AI artistic creation.