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“We don’t think that the future of music involves the labels anymore”: Napster is back – with a new AI app

Napster 26 mock-up cassette tape.

Remember Napster? Of course you do. Now the enfant terrible of the early Internet age is back and attempting to muscle in on the AI music race by launching its own AI app.

It’s slightly different from Suno and Udio in that it involves using a chatbot character so it’s more like interacting with a ‘real’ AI artist. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Napster CEO Edo Segal said: “What we’re trying to do is create more of an experience. The human experience of interacting with other parties, and a kind of multi-turn creation process, in the same way that humans jam and create stuff together.”

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