ElevenLabs releases Music v2, a major upgrade that enables genre-switching mid-track, section-based composition, and inpainting to preserve continuity across drastic transitions like opera to heavy metal.

The new Music v2 handles both vocals and complex composition, allowing seamless genre changes within a single piece.

Industry licensing remains a focus as ElevenLabs and Stability emphasize licensed data to curb copyright risk, while Suno remains a dominant platform with a multibillion-dollar valuation and ongoing lawsuits across Warner, Sony, and UMG.

Stable Audio 3.0 debuts with a four-model family: on-device Small (459M), Medium (1.4B) delivering ~6:20 outputs in about 1.3 seconds on an H200 GPU, and Large (2.7B) API-only, with open weights for three variants.

Stability AI positions Stable Audio 3.0 around longer, coherent outputs and licensed data, supporting up to six minutes and twenty seconds per track and offering on-device options.

The model lineup is built on licensed data and cleared for commercial use, reflecting ongoing industry focus on AI music rights and label agreements.

The architecture introduces a semantic-acoustic autoencoder to maintain melodic coherence, supports LoRA fine-tuning, and features extensive inpainting for single-segment, multi-segment, and causal continuation.

The release aligns with a broader industry trend as major labs push longer, more complex music generation, while debates over covers, edits by sections, and music videos continue.

Artists can construct songs by sections—intro, verse, chorus—and stitch them together, enabling more structured and scalable compositions.

ElevenLabs situates Music v2 within ElevenCreative for marketing and ElevenMusic for AI-generated songs, with ElevenAPI support planned soon.

Music v2 offers practical inpainting, section-based composition, multilingual improvements, and cross-platform integration across ElevenMusic, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI, with updated pricing and reduced use of legacy versions.

Licensing deals with Believe, Kobalt, and Merlin accompany ElevenLabs, while Stability collaborates with Warner and Universal; Udio has settled with majors and now operates as a closed ecosystem.