Suno on Wednesday launched its v6 family of AI music models, the first trained with licensed catalogs from Warner Music Group, BMG, and distributor Believe, according to TechCrunch, Axios, and Engadget. The company said the new models were built from the ground up on a different dataset than earlier versions, combining licensed partner music, Suno user data, and later additions from participating Believe and TuneCore artists.
The lineup has three models. Flagship v6 is aimed at paying Pro and Premier users and is described as reliable and steerable. v6-wild, also paid, is an experimental brainstorming model. v6-mini is a faster free-tier version. Suno plans to retire its older models. New controls include natural-language edits to a section or a single lyric, mashups from multiple sources, sampling an isolated instrument into a new beat, and generating tracks from audio, images, or video.
Chief product officer Jack Brody told Engadget the launch is the formal start of Suno’s label partnerships and that revenue sharing with partners begins today. Remix tools that let users work from opt-in artist catalogs are still in development, Music Ally reported. Suno still blocks prompts that ask for a song in the likeness of a known artist or track, Axios said.
The shift follows Warner’s 2025 licensing deal that ended its lawsuit against Suno, and a BMG agreement last month. Believe’s partnership reverses an April block on distributing Suno-generated music. Sony, Universal Music Group, artist Jason Isbell, Round Hill, and others still have cases pending. TechCrunch noted the announcement came a day after Suno admitted training earlier models on YouTube videos. PitchBook data cited by TechCrunch put Suno’s funding above $819 million.