Suno launches v6 AI music model built with record industry support
AI music platform Suno has released its v6 model, the first trained with licensed content from record labels. The new model comes in three versions and shows significantly better genre understanding.
Suno has begun rolling out its newest AI music generation model, v6, marking the first time the company has trained a model with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data" that excludes material used to train earlier models.
The new training data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, along with "user data." It remains unclear whether this means the v6 dataset is entirely free of content obtained through questionable means.
Three versions of the model
One of the notable changes is that Suno now offers three separate models: v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini. The mini version is free for all users and focuses on fast, resource-light generation, though its output tends to be simpler and shows more telltale signs of AI creation. v6-wild is meant to produce more unpredictable results, described as aiming for "happy accidents and natural imperfections," though the difference from the standard v6 was reportedly hard to detect in practice.
All three versions show a marked improvement in understanding musical genres compared to earlier models. However, the model still cannot produce genuinely "imperfect" music — attempts to get off-key, out-of-tune, or rhythmically flawed results consistently failed, with the model continuing to deliver harmonically and rhythmically polished output even when instructed otherwise. At the same time, vocals in v6 tend to show more AI-typical audio artifacts than in the previous v5 model.
New capabilities
v6 allows users to edit parts of a song using plain-language chat instructions without regenerating the entire track, for instance when adjusting a guitar part or a single lyric line. The model can also combine multiple elements from a user's existing Suno library into new creations. Additionally, prompts are no longer limited to text — v6 can also generate tracks based on images, video, or other audio files as input.
The company says v6 began rolling out today and that it plans to eventually retire its earlier models.
