Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing
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Stability AI raised $76M from Sony, Warner, Universal and others. The money ties the startup even tighter to the music giants it’s building with.
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Stability AI has picked up a $76 million Series B, and the cast of backers says as much about its future as the cash does. Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group all joined the round, alongside Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
The company also pulled in more familiar names: Coatue, Greycroft, Eric Schmidt and Sean Parker all participated again. Parker, the Napster co-founder, sits on Stability AI’s board, as does James Cameron. That is not exactly a timid cap table.
The London-founded startup says the new money will go into creative production and research. It also says the round lifts its total funding to $232 million, counting two equity rounds and convertible notes. Stability AI is now under CEO Prem Akkaraju, who took over in June 2024 after founder Emad Mostaque was pushed out amid employee departures, internal strife claims and lawsuits.
The deal also fits a pattern the company has already been laying down. Stability AI has struck agreements with Warner and Electronic Arts to build new AI models using their catalogues and intellectual property, and earlier this year it rolled out new models, including one that can generate professional-grade music longer than six minutes. It now describes itself as a leader in AI tools for professional creatives across music, gaming and entertainment, while its focus has shifted from London to the US, with an office in LA and its London office closed.
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This is what AI commercialization looks like when the majors stop complaining and start wiring money. Stability AI isn’t trying to sneak around the content industry; it’s building inside it, with the labels and game companies sitting at the table. That may be cleaner than the usual scrape-first, apologize-later routine, but it also means the business is drifting toward the same old gatekeepers with a fresh coat of machine learning paint.
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