Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
摘要: In Brief
2:09 PM PDT · October 2, 2026
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Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Images
Connie Loizos
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stabil
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In Brief
2:09 PM PDT · October 2, 2026
Image Credits:
Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Images
Connie Loizos
Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, has jumped back into the music industry, and he tells The Information that he’s
playing by the rules
this time. (Asking for forgiveness rather than permission didn’t
work out so well
last time around, he readily concedes.)
Two years ago, he joined an
$80 million rescue
of Stability AI, the image-generator startup that nearly collapsed after overspending and
internal turmoil
led to founder Emad Mostaque’s ouster. Now Parker and his longtime friend Prem Akkaraju, who became CEO, are taking the wraps off what they’ve been building.
The big idea, Parker says, is to turn Stability into the go-to AI toolmaker for music professionals. Toward that end, in late August, the company announced
$76 million
in funding from, among others, Sony, Warner, and Universal, which also licensed their catalogs for training as part of the deal. Stability has since released three new audio models and AI music-editing software. The AI can generate whole instrumental tracks or short snippets from text prompts. Parker says an upcoming update will let users hum a melody or beatbox a drum pattern to steer it.
In Brief
Sean Parker
Stability AI
October 13 – 15
San Francisco
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