The pace of development in the world of AI music is rapidly increasing. Just last month, Google made their text-to-music AI MusicLM available for public testing. This week, Meta has released an open-source rival to MusicLM called MusicGen that's now available to the public.
Both MusicGen and MusicLM are generative AI models that use technology powered by machine learning to produce short clips of music in response to text input. MusicGen will generate 15 seconds of audio based on the description provided by the user: type in anything from '90s rock song with electric guitar' to '180bpm gabber track with microtonal synth lead' and it'll do its best to approximate the description in the music it spits back out.
