music-generation
YuE2 is an open song generator that writes the sheet music first News
The M-A-P research collective released YuE2 on 9 September 2026, a 3.6-billion-parameter open song generator that first writes an editable melody-and-chord score and then renders the full song, available as a 7.3 GB download under a non-commercial licence, the same day Suno launched v6 built with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe.
A Munich Court Found Suno's Models Memorised Six Songs News
The Regional Court of Munich I largely granted GEMA's claims against Suno, holding that six well-known works were reproducibly stored in Suno's models and could be extracted through simple prompts, and assigning responsibility to Suno rather than its users.
YuE2-3B Tool
M-A-P's song generator, released 9 September: writes an editable melody-and-chord score in ABC notation, then renders the full song. A 7.3 GB download plus a 0.5 GB decoder; the model card asks for a 24 GB NVIDIA GPU. Weights are CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial), code Apache 2.0.
MiniMax Music 3.0 Tool
Production music model that takes a creative concept and optional lyrics and composes, arranges, performs and produces a complete song in a single generation, with instrumental-only support. Callable through MiniMax's platform API as model music-3.0, with open weights also published.
ElevenLabs Music v2.5 Tool
Default model in ElevenMusic since 11 September, with more layered arrangements and more natural-sounding instruments than v2, which stays available. API access for paid subscribers via model_id music_v2_5; tracks run 3 seconds to 5 minutes and music generation costs 900 credits per minute.