Udio
A New York AI music company whose Udio service generates songs from text prompts. It began life as Uncharted Labs and opened a free public beta on 10 April 2024.
Wikipedia lists its founders as David Ding, Conor Durkan, Charlie Nash, Yaroslav Ganin and Andrew Sanchez, former Google DeepMind researchers, and names a$10 million seed round backed by Andreessen Horowitz, UnitedMasters, will.i.am, Common, Mike Krieger and others. Its model releases include v1.5 (23 July 2024) and v1.5 Allegro (18 March 2025).
In June 2024 the RIAA, on behalf of major labels, sued Udio and Suno for training on copyrighted recordings. Udio settled with Universal Music Group in October 2025 and with Warner Music Group on 19 November 2025, agreeing to rebuild as a platform trained on licensed and authorized music; existing users were given 48 hours to download their creations before the move to a streaming-style model. Udio Playground launched on 9 October 2025. As of the Warner deal, Sony Music was the one major label without a settlement, and a later licensing deal with Kobalt is reported but was not confirmed.
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