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Suno Gets $200M After Reaching Deal With Warner Music

In Machines we Trust

In Machines we Trust

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4.36 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Suno completes a funding round worth $200M following a settlement with Warner Music. Company leaders say the agreement supports sustainable expansion. Experts expect Suno to push deeper into professional music markets.


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0:00.0

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0:05.5

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0:11.4

Warner Music has just settled a copyright lawsuit with AI music generator, Udio, and they've also signed a deal for an AI music platform.

0:21.6

At the same time, we also have Suno, my favorite personally, AI music generator, that has

0:27.3

just raised $200 million at a $2.45 billion valuation.

0:33.0

Today on the podcast, we're talking everything AI generated music.

0:36.9

There's also an AI generated song that is

0:39.6

hitting the top country charts. So there is a lot of craziness going down. We're going to break

0:44.6

all of it down where the future is for AI generated music. Is it something that's going to

0:49.0

get sued into oblivion or is it here to stay? I think you're going to like the answer and I think

0:53.4

this is going to be an interesting episode for a lot of people. Before we get into that, if you want to try any of these startups that I talk about on the show, I'd love for you to go check out AIbox.a.I. We have a ton of different text AI models, image AI models, and even audio AI models on there. For audio, we use 11 labs.

1:12.5

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1:16.1

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1:19.3

Link is in the description. All right, let's get into the podcast.

1:21.8

So Warner Music Group has just settled a copyright infringement case with UDio and

1:26.7

AI music Company.

1:28.3

They announced this and apparently they've entered into a licensing deal for an AI

1:32.3

music creation platform that they're going to be launching next year.

1:36.7

They had a big press release about it.

1:38.8

And this is a quote from it.

1:40.0

They said, the next generation music creation, listening and discovery platform, they're essentially that they're going to create. And they said that it's going to have new revenue streams for artists and songwriters while ensuring their work remains protected. Now, Spotify recently announced something as well, but they also haven't given too many details of what this is going to look like. I will tell you what this is going to look like. Essentially, you're going to be able to go and find artists who have opted into this, maybe Drake, maybe Kanye West, maybe Eminem. And I don't know, I just listed like rappers there. Okay, I'm sure there's going to be lots of genres. So I apologize for the lack of audio diversity in those suggestions. In any case, essentially, what you're going to be able to do, you're going to go to an artist that's opted in. You're going to be able to say generate music in the style of this. And then you'll also be able to say, and, you know, I want like a song about XYZ, you know, maybe a song about Kendrick and Lamar beefing. And, you, it's throw some disses at Kendrick's mom.

2:36.7

Okay, I know I really got to get out of this rapper rut. But regardless, you get the idea,

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