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Suno and Warner Music
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- 0:00The three biggest record labels sued
- 0:02this AI music startup. A year later, one
- 0:04of them became [music] its partner.
- 0:06Sunno was started in Cambridge,
- 0:08Massachusetts by a small team of AI
- 0:10researchers [music] led by Mikey
- 0:11Schulman. Type a sentence and it writes
- 0:14and sings a full song. Nearly 100
- 0:16million people [music] made music with
- 0:17it in 2 years. In June 2024, Universal,
- 0:21Sony, [music] and Warner sued, accusing
- 0:24Sunno of training on their recordings.
- 0:26Sunno kept growing. In November 2025,
- 0:28[music] Warner settled and signed a deal
- 0:31to license its music to Sunno. The same
- 0:33month, Sunno raised $250 million at a
- 0:36$2.45 [music] billion valuation with
- 0:39about 200 million in annual revenue.
- 0:42Sued in one year, partnered [music] the
- 0:44next.
- 0:45>> Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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