Alibaba launches beta AI music-generation model that creates full songs from text prompts

Alibaba Cloud just entered the AI music arena with Fun-Music, a model that takes a text prompt and spits out a fully formed song, complete with lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocals. The model is currently available in limited preview through Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio, restricted to users in the China (Beijing) region who successfully apply for access. It supports both Chinese and English vocals, instrumental-only tracks, and outputs in MP3 or WAV formats. What Fun-Music actually does The model works by translating natural language descriptions into complete audio productions. Users can specify styles, moods, instruments, and scenes in their prompts, and Fun-Music handles the rest: writing the lyrics, composing the melody, arranging the instrumentation, and rendering the vocals. Two model variants are available: fun-music-v1 and fun-music-preview. Both include options for selecting male or female vocals, giving creators a baseline level of control over the output’s character. API access follows standard authentication procedures, which means developers can integrate Fun-Music into their own applications and workflows rather than relying solely on a web interface. Building on o...