Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

<figure> <img alt="Suno v6 ai music model logo." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Suno" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/Suno_v6_Main.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Suno's new v6 <a href="https://suno.com/blog/introducing-v6">AI music model</a> is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told <em>The Verge</em> that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes content licensed from partners <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal">Warner Music Group</a>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/978232/suno-has-struck-a-global-alliance-with-the-music-company-bmg">BMG</a>, and <a href="https://suno.com/blog/believe-partnership">Believe</a>, as well as "<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906896/sunos-copyright-ai-music-covers">user data</a>." It's unclear whether that means v6 training data is completely free of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/966072/suno-ai-music-training-scraping-youtube-hack">dubiously obtained content</a>.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of the big changes in v6 is that there are actually three different models: v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini. Mini is the model available for free to all. It's focused on fast, res …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/991977/suno-releases-its-first-ai-music-model-made-with-record-industry-help">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>