We are the music makers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/stability-ai-76m-round-all-three-majors All three majors now back Stability AI: what a $76M round says about AI music's power map https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/stability-ai-76m-round-all-three-majors Universal, Sony and Warner all took equity in Stability AI's $76M Series B on 25 Aug 2026. The labels are now licensors, development partners and shareholders of the same AI company, and none of the announcements says how artists share in any of those roles. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industryfundingai-musicstability-ailabels https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/stable-audio-3-open-weights-licensed-data-local Stable Audio 3.0: open-weight music models you can run on your own machine, trained on stock and Creative Commons audio https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/stable-audio-3-open-weights-licensed-data-local Stability AI's Stable Audio 3.0 family puts music models that make up to 6:20 of audio onto ordinary laptops, with open weights for Small and Medium. The "fully licensed" training set is stock library and Creative Commons audio, not label catalogue, and the free licence ends at $1M in annual revenue. Wed, 20 May 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicreleasesstability-aiopen-weightslicensing