Suno built its name on AI-generated songs. Its latest feature moves the company into a neighboring format: spoken audio that comes with its own soundtrack.
The new tool is called Speech. It creates a narrated voice and fitting background music at the same time and delivers both as a single audio track. Users do not have to record a voiceover, find a music bed, and mix the two. The model handles all of it in one pass.
How Speech works
The workflow follows the prompt-driven pattern Suno users already know:
Start with text or an idea. Users can paste in a finished script or type a rough concept.
Describe the voice. The prompt sets how the narrator should sound.
Describe the music. A second description sets the style of the accompanying sound.
FieldAI Inc., a startup that builds AI models to control robots, is reportedly in the middle of a large fundraise. According to a source cited by Business Insider, the company is looking to raise $700 million in a round that could value it at $10 billion.
That figure would be five times FieldAI's valuation from last August. The report says the company has already signed a term sheet. A term sheet is a preliminary, nonbinding document that sets out the main conditions of an investment before the final agreement is signed.
Who might be writing the checks
The report did not name the investors expected to join the round. Large growth-stage rounds often include money from a startup's existing backers. FieldAI's current investors include Bezos Expeditions, Intel Capital and NVentures, the venture fund of Nvidia Corp.
Sean Parker is back in the music business. This time he says he is working with the industry instead of against it.
The Napster co-founder told The Information that he is "playing by the rules" with his latest project: rebuilding Stability AI as a toolmaker for music professionals. He openly admits that his old habit of asking for forgiveness rather than permission did not end well the last time he got involved with music. The new plan is built around licensing deals with the major labels from the start.
From near-collapse to a new direction
Stability AI is best known as an image-generation startup. Two years ago it was in serious trouble. Overspending and internal turmoil pushed it close to collapse and led to the ouster of founder Emad Mostaque.
Legato, a hearing technology startup, has started selling its first product. Legato Frames are glasses with hearing assistance built into the arms, and they use AI to pick voices out of background noise. The company announced on Thursday that they are now available. Prices start at $999. The glasses are aimed at adults with hearing loss up to a moderate level.
The company says it wants to make hearing care easier to access by addressing three common reasons people avoid hearing aids: cost, comfort, and stigma. Placing the technology in a pair of glasses is its answer to all three.
Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released Flux 3 Image, the image-generation part of its new Flux 3 model family. The main selling point is editing. According to BFL, users can make several edits in a row without the model changing parts of the picture they never asked it to touch.
That is a narrow claim, but an important one. Most people who refine an AI image over several rounds want each change to stay contained, so that fixing a background does not also alter a face or a product label. BFL says Flux 3 Image handles that kind of step-by-step workflow. So far, that comes from the company itself and has not been independently tested.
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