OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno

OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from “Lord of the Rings” but with Gen Z characters, or Pokémon’s Pikachu as “The Godfather.” Now the company has set its sights on doing the same thing with music.

OpenAI staff have been taking steps to develop AI that generates music, according to a person with knowledge of the work. For instance, the company has been working with some students from the Juilliard School to annotate music scores, according to a second person. They are providing the kind of training data that would be needed to develop AI that produces music.