“Startup ElevenLabs said it has launched a new service called Eleven Music that lets individuals and businesses generate their own music with its artificial intelligence model.

Users enter a prompt in plain English, such as ‘create a smooth jazz song with a ‘60s vibe and powerful lyrics, but relaxing for a Friday afternoon,’ and the startup’s AI model generates a tune within minutes, complete with vocals and instrumentals.

With the launch, ElevenLabs—best known for its voice generation software—enters a fraught sphere where major music labels have already sued two music-generation startups, Suno and Udio, for their alleged use of copyrighted works to train their AI.

ElevenLabs Co-founder and Chief Executive Mati Staniszewski said the three-year-old startup has a deal with Merlin Network, a digital rights agency for independent labels, to train its model on artists’ work whose rights are represented by Merlin. ElevenLabs has a similar deal with Kobalt Music Group, an independent rights management and music publishing firm.”

From Wall Street Journal.