Stability AI raises $76M from Universal, Sony and Warner Music to expand creative AI
Tech Funding News Abhinaya Prabhu ● Covered by 4 sources
Stability AI raised $76M from Universal, Sony, Warner and others. The music majors are putting equity into an AI company they once sued.
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Stability AI has pulled in $76 million in new funding, and the investor list says almost as much as the number. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group and Electronic Arts all joined the Series B, alongside AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures. For a company once seen as a legal problem by the music business, that’s a notable shift.
The round takes Stability’s total funding to $232 million under chief executive Prem Akkaraju, who stepped in after Emad Mostaque left in March 2024. Akkaraju came from Weta Digital and has spent his short tenure pushing Stability away from splashy research lore and toward products the entertainment business can actually license and use.
That change is clear in the customer posture. Universal signed a partnership with Stability in October 2025, Warner followed in November 2025, and Sony had no equivalent public partnership before showing up as an investor here. It is also the first time all three major labels have taken an equity stake in the same AI company. Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker and Eric Schmidt came back again, and Thomas Laffont of Coatue is joining Stability’s board.
The company’s pitch now is straightforward: licensed creative AI, not courtroom drama. Stable Audio 3.0 is trained entirely on licensed data and is available through a DAW plugin or on StableAudio.com. Stability says the money will go into its creative production product suite, applied research, and a professional services arm working directly with studios and labels.
And the timing matters. Two years ago, Universal, Sony and Warner were suing AI song generators Suno and Udio over unlicensed training data. Since late 2025, those labels have settled and signed licensing deals with Udio, Suno and Klay Vision instead. Stability’s raise shows that the music industry’s real answer to generative AI is no longer just legal pressure; it’s ownership.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the part of AI everyone likes to skip: the majors do not just want payment, they want a seat on the cap table. Licensed creative AI is becoming the adult supervision model, and the companies that still think they can build first and ask forgiveness later are heading for a very expensive lesson.
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