Google just made its experimental music generator MusicFX generally available in AI Test Kitchen, alongside lyric-writing helper TextFX. The tool turns text prompts into tracks up to 70 seconds long or seamless loops, tagged with DeepMind's SynthID watermark. Why it matters: Google is testing the waters of creative audio while carefully blocking vocal generation and artist name prompts to avoid copyright backlash.
Google just launched MusicFX, an experimental tool that whips up custom music tracks from simple text prompts. Powered by MusicLM, the tool bakes DeepMind's SynthID watermarks directly into the audio to flag AI origin. To steer clear of legal trouble, it outright refuses to generate vocals or mimic specific artists. It is rolling out first to users in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Kenya.
Google just pulled its AI Test Kitchen app from both the App Store and Google Play, shifting the experimental playground entirely to the web. The platform, which once showcased early LaMDA demos, now only hosts the MusicLM text-to-audio tool. Google confirmed it is prioritizing the web experience to push updates faster on a single platform.
Google researchers just unveiled MusicLM, a model capable of generating high-fidelity music from complex text prompts and humming. Trained on 280,000 hours of audio, it can weave narrative soundtracks spanning several minutes. But with 1% of outputs directly mimicking copyrighted training data, Google is keeping it locked up for now.
