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Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them.
“As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generation,” the company said.
The announcement, published on Wednesday, introduces three new models. There is v6, designed for more polished results, and v6-wild, which is meant to produce less predictable ones.
Both are available only to Pro and Premier subscribers, and the third, v6-mini, is available to everyone.
The new models support partial song editing, mashups using multiple sources, audio isolation, and sampling. Users can also create prompts using text, audio, images, or video.
The timing is important because this is not simply a product update. When Warner settled its copyright lawsuit against Suno in November 2025, the agreement included a commitment from Suno to launch more advanced licensed models and retire its existing ones.
The models trained on material Warner said had been used without permission are being retired. The models replacing them were developed with the same label that had sued the company.
Believe is the third partner, and it has the most direct role when it comes to artists.
Artists working with Believe can choose to take part in the new Suno experiences. Songs created on Suno can also become eligible for distribution through Believe and TuneCore, giving AI-generated music a route into the same stores and platforms used by conventional releases.
But Suno says very little about what the new models were actually trained on. It names the companies involved and calls them co-developers, but provides no information about which catalogues were used, how much material was included, or how the training was carried out.
For a launch built around the distinction between licensed new models and disputed older ones, that is a significant gap.
The feature list is also revealing. Audio isolation and sampling, editing parts of existing songs, combining multiple sources, and prompting with images or video are not features aimed at people experimenting with an AI music generator for fun.
They are tools for people who already make music, and they arrive as Suno can point to three label partners and say the material behind its new generation is licensed.
Artist payments are less concrete. Suno says artists will be able to opt into new experiences and receive payment when they participate, while fans will get new ways to interact with them.
There is no payment structure in place yet. The labels are part of the product from Wednesday; the artists are part of a plan for what comes next.
The November settlement also changed what regular users can do with Suno. Songs created on the free tier can still be played and shared, but they cannot be downloaded. Paying users have monthly download limits and can purchase additional downloads after reaching them.
That followed a period in which Suno was adding watermarking and fingerprinting as pressure from the copyright litigation increased.
The two changes point in the same direction: Suno’s original free-for-all model is being reshaped around the controls and restrictions required by licensing agreements.
Europe has not followed the same path. A German court ruled this year that Suno breached copyright, in the first such decision on the continent. The case was brought by collecting society GEMA.
Wednesday’s announcement does not change that. Suno is now a licensed partner of major labels in the US while also being a company that has been found to have infringed copyright in Germany.
The situation in the US is not settled either. Universal is not part of the new announcement, while Sony continues to sue Suno’s rival Udio over 30,000 songs, seeking $4.5bn.
What has emerged is less a resolution of the AI music copyright fight than a split in how the major players are approaching it.
Labels that settled their disputes are now working with the companies they sued to develop new products. Those that have not settled are still in court.
Suno’s $5.4bn valuation helps explain why the first group had something worth negotiating over.
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