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Google Debuted Lyria 3, An App That Turns Text or Images Into 30-Second Songs

Google launched Lyria 3, a latent diffusion-based music generation model integrated into the Gemini app and YouTube Shorts, capable of producing 30-second audio clips with vocals and instruments from text or image prompts. Unlike its predecessor Lyria 2, Lyria 3 was trained on licensed audio data and includes copyright-filtering safeguards, SynthID watermarking, and RLHF fine-tuning. The model is available free to Gemini users (18+) and YouTube Shorts creators, reaching an estimated 750 million users. Google also acquired ProducerAI (formerly Riffusion) shortly after launch, signaling continued investment in AI music tooling.