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Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

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Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement to launch an AI-powered platform that lets fans remix, mash up, and reinterpret songs from the UMG catalog. The service will use ElevenLabs’ technology to generate new track interpretations and personalized vocal experiences, while ensuring artists receive compensation for derivative works.

Written from all 5 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. The Verge·
    Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

    Universal Music Group announced a new AI-powered platform that lets users remix, mash up, and reinterpret songs using the label’s licensed catalog, built under a multi-year licensing deal with ElevenLabs, which specializes in AI voice and music generation. Artists may opt in or out of the service, adding to UMG’s existing AI collaborations with Udio, Spotify, Nvidia and other partners.

  2. The Next Web·
    ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

    ElevenLabs has entered a multi-year licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, its first deal with a major label. The partnership will create a fan-remix platform that lets users remix, mashup, and reinterpret tracks from participating artists. The platform will also offer personalized vocal experiences using those licensed songs.

  3. Engadget·
    Universal Music Group is collaborating with ElevenLabs on a new AI-powered creation platform

    Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement to build an AI-powered platform that lets fans remix and mash up licensed tracks from participating UMG artists while ensuring compensation. The unnamed software will use ElevenLabs’ technology to generate new track interpretations and personalized vocal experiences, and the companies will also co-develop additional AI audio products for artists.

  4. TechMeme·
    Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)

    Universal Music Group has teamed with ElevenLabs to create an AI-driven platform that lets users generate remixes, mashups and other derivative works using the label’s catalog. Anthropic released a threat-intelligence report detailing how it intercepted multiple attempts to weaponize its Claude model for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biological research and fraud, shutting down at least one suspicious project.

  5. Hacker News·
    ElevenLabs Music v2.5

    ElevenMusic’s Music v2.5 launches as the default model, delivering richer melodies, more natural-sounding instruments, and deeper sound across genres while retaining Music v2 for legacy use. Users can download completed tracks losslessly—Free plans receive five downloads daily, Pro plans 400 per month—and retain full rights to any creation, except when songs reference other artists. The rollout follows ElevenLabs’ multi-year licensing and product-development agreement with Universal Music Group.

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