impossible → routine

A whole song, generated

Generating a complete song, music and singing, as audio.

Impossible

OpenAI's Jukebox generates music with singing in the raw audio domain, at about nine hours of sampling per minute of song.

about 9 hours of compute per minute of audio

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3 years, 10 months

Routine

Suno's v3 model makes full two-minute songs in seconds and is available to all users.

a two-minute song in seconds

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The Jukebox paper gives its figure in two parts: around an hour to generate one minute of top-level tokens, and around eight hours to upsample that minute to finished audio. The impossible end is dated to the paper's arXiv submission, 30 April 2020.

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