Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.
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Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, has taken control of Stability AI and is redirecting the company to focus on music generation tools rather than image generation. Two years after joining a major funding round that rescued the struggling startup, Parker and CEO Prem Akkaraju secured funding from major music labels who also licensed their catalogs for training the AI models. The company has released audio models and music-editing software that can generate instrumental tracks from text prompts, with plans to add features allowing users to hum melodies or create drum patterns to guide the AI.
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