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Mikey Shulman and the Song Anyone Can Start
A bass player with a physics doctorate built Suno around a simple invitation: describe a song and hear it. As the company grows, he is trying to make that invitation work for both new makers and the musicians whose work shaped the medium.
Suno
Suno is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company building generative-AI tools that turn a text prompt into a full song - vocals, instruments, and lyrics - in seconds. Founded by four former Kensho machine-learning engineers who were also musicians, Suno has grown into one of the most-used consumer AI apps, with tens of millions of users generating millions of tracks a day. It rode a string of rapid model releases (v3 through v5) and an in-browser DAW called Suno Studio to roughly $300M in annual recurring revenue and a $5.4B valuation, all while fighting - and beginning to settle - copyright lawsuits from the major record labels.