One of the AI music trends we’re enjoying right now is the growing importance of “ethics.” New startups (well, a growing number of them) are making properly licensed training data and transparency an important part of their pitches.
Rightsify is one of them. We wrote about the music licensing company in January 2023 when he launched an AI musical model “Hydra” trained on its own catalog of 60,000 songs.
Now he has revamped the product like Hydra IIdescribing it as “the largest, most diverse and truly ethical model available”.
The training offering is certainly more extensive: more than a million songs and 50,000 hours of music from more than 50 languages. The company targets a wide range of possible users, from musicians to marketers.
Rightsify tells Music Ally that Hydra II is actually two and a half times larger than Meta’s MusicGen – hence its claim to be the largest commercially available model.
The company also sees an advantage in how it learns music on a structural level – because Rightsify annotates its music from the production stage – rather than from audio alone.
“Hydra II does not offer voice or singing generation to further prevent counterfeits and deepfakes,” noted the company, which was also one of the first startups to be certified by the recently launched Fairly Trained initiative.
Next up: more Hydra templates and genre-specific templates, including classical and lo-fi, among others.
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