Google has acquired ProducerAI, the AI music creation platform previously generally known as Riffusion, bringing the startup and its group into Google Labs.
The deal was introduced on Tuesday (February 24) through a Google weblog put up from Elias Roman, Senior Director of Product Administration at Google Labs, who described ProducerAI as “a artistic collaborator” that enables customers to “flip creativeness into dynamic, complete songs”.
ProducerAI’s full group seems to be becoming a member of Google throughout each Google Labs and Google DeepMind, in line with a LinkedIn put up from ProducerAI exec Kendall Rankin.
The information arrives only a week after Google launched Lyria 3, which it has described as its ‘most superior’ generative AI music mannequin thus far, in its Gemini chatbot app, the place it permits customers to create AI-generated tracks from textual content prompts or pictures.
Underneath Google, ProducerAI now runs on a preview model of Lyria 3 for music technology, Gemini for its chat interface, Google’s Nano Banana mannequin for album artwork, and Veo for AI-powered music movies, with all outputs embedded with Google’s SynthID watermark for figuring out AI-generated content material.
Seth Forsgren, co-founder and CEO of ProducerAI, informed The Verge the group is “simply scratching the floor of what these fashions are going to have the ability to do as soon as we harness the whole lot that Google brings to the desk.”
Roman informed the outlet the important thing distinction between ProducerAI and different AI music-making platforms is the conversational back-and-forth with the platform’s built-in agent: “It’s not a software that you just put in your immediate, roll the slot machine, and one thing will come out. The truth is that’s not how good music is made… and ProducerAI was actually made for the back-and-forths that play out over time.”
ProducerAI was based by Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros, who initially launched the platform as Riffusion as an open-source interest undertaking that went viral in December 2022
The startup raised a $4 million seed spherical in October 2023 led by Greycroft, with participation from South Park Commons and Sky9, and introduced on The Chainsmokers as advisors. The platform launched in July 2025 as a successor to Riffusion, initially utilizing the startup’s personal AI mannequin.
“We’re so grateful to see how this platform continues to evolve. It’s really crafted across the musician’s expertise. The founders are extremely technical, however natively musicians, and perceive the nuances of what makes a platform really be an additive software within the creation course of.”
Alex Pall, The Chainsmokers
Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers stated: “We’re so grateful to see how this platform continues to evolve. It’s really crafted across the musician’s expertise. The founders are extremely technical, however natively musicians, and perceive the nuances of what makes a platform really be an additive software within the creation course of.”
Google stated it has additionally been working with artist companions by its Music AI Sandbox — a collection of experimental instruments for skilled musicians developed with DeepMind and YouTube.
Grammy-winning artist Wyclef Jean is amongst those that have used Lyria as a artistic software throughout the growth of his music:
“As we proceed to construct ProducerAI at Google, we will probably be laser-focused on artistic management for artists, together with by options like Areas, which permits artists to make use of pure language to create utterly new devices, results, and extra,” stated Roman within the weblog put up on Tuesday.
The acquisition comes as Google continues to pursue AI-focused offers. The tech large lately introduced within the CEO and high engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI through a licensing deal.
ProducerAI enters the Google secure as a relatively small participant in a generative AI music market more and more outlined by deep pockets and authorized danger.
Suno, one of the crucial outstanding gamers within the house, closed a $250 million Sequence C at a $2.45 billion valuation in November, reporting $200 million in annual income. Suno settled its copyright lawsuit with Warner Music Group in late November, hanging a licensing partnership, although it nonetheless faces infringement fits from Sony Music and Common Music Group, as nicely as European music rights orgs, together with Denmark’s Koda and Germany’s GEMA.
On Monday, MBW reported {that a} coalition of artist representatives revealed an open letter calling on the music neighborhood to “Say No to Suno”, describing the platform as a “brazen smash and seize” that “floods platforms with AI slop and dilutes the royalty swimming pools of professional artists”.
Google has not specified how Lyria 3 was skilled, however stated in a weblog put up on Wednesday (February 18) it has sought to “develop this know-how responsibly in collaboration with the music neighborhood” and has “been very conscious of copyright and companion agreements” in coaching the mannequin.
MBW understands that to imply the coaching for Lyria 3 makes use of music that YouTube and its mum or dad firm, Google, “have the suitable to make use of” beneath their “phrases of service, companion agreements, and relevant regulation”.Music Enterprise Worldwide
