Microsoft has partnered with audio generator Suno AI to power a new music led generative experience with its Copilot platform.
In a recent Microsoft Bing Blogs post, the company announced a new partnership with Suno to give users “the ability, regardless of musical background, to create fun, clever, and personalized songs with a simple prompt.”
Using a plugin connected to Copilot, users can now gain access to the musical generative models from Suno AI to create songs complete with lyrics, instrumentals, and vocals with a straightforward text prompt.
The Suno AI team of musicians and AI experts from Cambridge, MA have only been around roughly a year but have charted a course to the top of pre-generative music creation in a brief period. Founded in 2022, alumni from Meta, TikTok, and Kensho led by co-founders Alex Lee, Daniel Kang and Kevin Chen have managed to attract over 10,000 users since September, $5M in seed funding as well as gain the attention of Microsoft’s newest flagship platform in under a year.
The less than-year-old tested platform allows users who don’t know how to sing, play instruments, or read music, still create melodies, tunes and songs if they have a general idea of what they’re aiming for.
Copilot and Suno will do all the hard work for you, matching the song to cues in your prompt. To get started creating your music, simply follow these steps:
- Open Microsoft Edge, visit copilot.microsoft.com and ensure you’re signed in with your Microsoft Account
- Enable the Suno plugin or click on the Suno logo that says, “Make music with Suno”
- Ask Copilot to create a song for you such as, “Create a pop song about adventures with your family”
- Jam along to your new tune
- Share on social or with your friends and colleagues
I’ve recently been playing around with Google’s take on an identical concept with its Test Kitchen tool MusicLM. Also, less than a year old, Google announced its MuiscLM tool in January and started sending out test invites in May. Like Copilot with Suno AI plugins, MusicLM works via prompts to create two versions of a song. Google’s model also learns from users’ feedback in the form of trophies, a thumbs up/thumbs down-like reward system for successfully generated music.
Google and Microsoft’s foray into pre-generative music models mirrors their respective journeys into general pre-generative AI, with Google seemingly internally developing their tools while Microsoft seeks strategic partnerships to provide its users a customize experience.
Anecdotally speaking, I have yet to get support for the Suno AI plugin in my version of Copilot, but having used Google’s MusicLM, I can see that Google has spent a bit more time with the aesthetic portion of MusicLM. MusicLM is visually distinct from Bard and feels like its own musical sandbox equipped with animations and UI, while the Suno AI plugin still feels very much like a Spartan Copilot experience. I’m not sure which one I’ll prefer, but having the two options shows how quickly these companies can move with AI at their fingertips.
