Music generator ProducerAI joins Google Labs | TechCrunch

The generative AI music tool ProducerAI will become part of Google Labs, the company announced on Tuesday. Backed by The Chainsmokers, the ProducerAI platform allows users to write natural language requests — something like “make a lofi beat”– to generate music. It uses Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model, which can turn text and even image inputs into audio outputs. Google announced last week that its Lyria 3 capabilities would be introduced into the flagship Gemini app, but ProducerAI makes it possible for users to communicate with the AI model more like it’s a “collaboration partner,” to use the words of Elias Roman, Google Labs’ Senior Director of Product Management. “ProducerAI has allowed me to create in new ways,” Roman wrote in a blog post. “I’ve experimented with new genre blends, expressed how I feel with personalized birthday songs for my loved ones, and made custom workout soundtracks for myself and friends.” Google also shared that three-time Grammy-winning rapper Wyclef Jean used the Lyria 3 model and Google’s Music AI Sandbox on his recent song “Back From Abu Dhabi.” “This is not just a machine where you’re clicking a button a hundred times, and then you’re done. It’s a careful kind of curation where you’re going through and saying, ‘Oh, I think that’s something we can use,’” said Jeff Chang, Director of Product Management at Google DeepMind, in a video the company put out. Jean recalls wanting to know what a flute would sound like in a track he...