Materialize Labs, Feed.fm Drive Business Results for AI, Video Apps; Metallica Get Own Season in Fortnite Festival

#112 | Your Weekly Dose of AI Music News

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Materialize Labs & Feed.fm Drive Business Results for AI & Video Apps

Discover how Materialize Labs and Feed.fm collaborate to drive business results in AI and video apps, showcasing the power of music integration for enhanced user engagement and digital offerings.

Metallica are getting their own season in Fortnite Festival

For its fourth season, Fortnite Festival is striking off in a different musical direction: metal. 

Music.AI Sets RoEx as Third Partner Integrated Into its AI Platform

This builds on integrations announced earlier this year: Masterchannel’s spatial audio upmixing and Cyanite’s AI-based music tagging and search solutions. These partners bring specialized capabilities to complement Music.AI’s 50+ proprietary stackable AI modules.

AI Music Video 'Étoile filante' Booed by Annecy Crowds

France’s Annecy Animation Festival opened on Sunday, and among the event’s first activities was a screening of titles from the Commission Films in Competition Lineup. During the projection, the French music video for Chien Méchant’s “Étoile filante,” produced using generative artificial intelligence software, earned the extraordinary distinction of being booed by the Annecy audience.

Musical AI launches rights management platform for AI training

A platform that stores rightsholder catalogues that are being licensed to AI companies; enables the latter to train their models “with access controls preventing unauthorised use or extraction”; and reports back on all generations and artist/song attributions.

Arpeggi Labs opens up its Kits·AI licensed AI-voices platform

It’s still about creating ‘Verified Voice Models’ and then earning royalties from the output – with analytics built in so they can see those earnings coming in.

Meet Kyogu Lee, President of Supertone - the voice cloning AI company acquired by HYBE for $32m

AI technology is a big priority for HYBE, the South Korean entertainment giant behind K-pop superstars BTS.

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⚙️ Cool Tools

• The Unique Architecture of GCX AI Music Datasets

• AI Music Generators in Action – the Breakneck Development of Automated Soundtracks

• I Asked AI to Give Me Guitar Riffs, Here’s How It Went

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© Copyright/wrong

• How to Protect Intellectual Property in the Age of AI

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🎼 Innovation

• Breakr, a Nas-backed startup with $9m raised to date, wants to ‘democratize’ music marketing with its AI-driven tech platform

• Apple makes privacy the focus for its move into AI technologies

• Data marketplace Human Native AI raises £2.8m funding round

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