Sean Parker 围绕音乐重建 Stability AI
原标题:Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
AI 摘要
Napster 联合创始人 Sean Parker 重返音乐行业,参与 Stability AI 的重建。两年前他参与了对这家濒临崩溃的图像生成初创公司的 8000 万美元救助,如今与出任 CEO 的好友 Prem Akkaraju 一起,将 Stability 转型为面向音乐专业人士的 AI 工具制造商。公司于 8 月底宣布获得索尼、华纳、环球等投资的 7600 万美元,并获其曲库授权用于训练,随后发布了三款新音频模型和 AI 音乐编辑软件,可从文本提示生成完整器乐曲目或片段,未来更新还将支持哼唱或口技控制。
正文节选
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, has jumped back into the music industry, and he tells The Information that he’s playing by the rules this time. (Asking for forgiveness rather than permission didn’t work out so well last time around, he readily concedes.) Two years ago, he joined an $80 million rescue of Stability AI, the image-generator startup that nearly collapsed after overspending and internal turmoil led to founder Emad Mostaque’s ouster. Now Parker and his longtime friend Prem Akkaraj