Beyond the heated debates and dealmaking around GenAI music, use of chatbots and other AI tools is growing rapidly across the music industry.
Tag: Anthropic
Competition to ChatGPT in AI-assistants market is heating up
OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the fastest mobile app ever to reach one billion monthly active users in May this year.
Anthropic’s Claude FM is a 24-7 music stream on YouTube
Thus far, AI giant Anthropic’s main interaction with the music industry has been a legal battle with publishers, who are suing it for copyright infringement of their lyrics. More positively, […]
Anthropic’s new funding round sees valuation approaching $1tn
Its tangle with music publishers continues to show no sign of impeding Anthropic’s ability to raise absolutely tons of money from investors and tech giants. The AI firm is reportedly […]
Anthropic’s Claude AI adds Spotify and StubHub as ‘connectors’
It seems clear that a growing proportion of online searching and shopping will be happening via AI chatbots… and also, perhaps, music discovery – from artists and songs to concerts and […]
Anthropic claims that training on lyrics is ‘transformative’
Fresh from raising another $5bn from Amazon – with potentially up to $20bn more to come – Anthropic is getting back into the details of its legal battle with music publishers. Billboard reported on the […]
Amazon will invest up to $25bn more in AI company Anthropic
Despite a damaging fallout with the White House – and ongoing lawsuits from music publishers – AI company Anthropic continues to have no problems raising huge amounts of funding from tech giants. […]
US music bodies weigh in to publishers’ Anthropic lawsuit
A group of music publishers are continuing to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, focusing on its alleged use of their lyrics to train its Claude model, as well […]
Music publishers file for partial summary judgement against Anthropic
AI firm Anthropic is still facing copyright-infringement lawsuits from music publishers… and now the publishers are going in for what they hope will be the legal kill. The publishers, who […]
BMG joins the lyrical lawsuits against AI company Anthropic
Music lawsuits may not be Anthropic’s biggest legal headache at the moment, given its escalating battle with the US administration. However, it has now picked up an additional adversary on the […]
Study suggests creative expression may be a niche AI use-case
When music-industry executives talk about an exciting new era of licensed musical AIs that enable fans to interact with their favourite artists’ music… it’s unclear whether there’s much evidence, yet, […]
Anthropic hits out at ‘distillation’ efforts by Chinese rivals
AI giant Anthropic is cross. It’s unhappy that some other AI companies – specifically several rivals from China – have been using its data without permission to train their own models. […]

