Suno

Suno, Inc. is an American company developing generative artificial intelligence for music creation. It was founded in 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Mikey Shulman, Georg Kucsko, Martin Camacho and Keenan Freyberg, who had previously worked at the AI startup Kensho. In April 2023 the company released the open-source audio model Bark on GitHub, and in December 2023 it launched the public Suno platform together with an integration in Microsoft Copilot. The platform generates complete songs — with vocals and instrumentation — from text prompts, and in later versions also from audio, image and video inputs. Successive model versions included v3 (2024), v4 (2024), v4.5 (2025), v5 (2025) and the v6 family introduced in September 2026. The company's operations have been the subject of legal disputes: in 2024 record labels represented by the RIAA (including Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group) sued Suno for infringing copyright in sound recordings. In 2025–2026 the company reached settlements and licensing agreements with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, while Universal Music Group and Sony Music remained plaintiffs. Suno raised USD 125 million in a 2024 funding round (valuation about USD 500 million) and USD 250 million in a Series C round in November 2025 at a USD 2.45 billion post-money valuation.