music generation
3 published articles
AI MUSIC
The melody-first trick that lets Qwen-Music beat Suno on 13 metrics
Qwen-Music separates melody planning from full-song generation via Melody-CoT. The 3-billion-parameter model, trained on 5 million+ hours of multilingual data, achieves state-of-the-art results against Suno V5 and MiniMax Music 2.6 in both objective metrics and human preference.
2026-07-31
Alibaba Qwen-Music Model and Melody Chain-of-Thought
Alibaba's Qwen-Music composes melodies first, then fills in the band, and out-sings Suno
Qwen-Music breaks new ground by explicitly planning melodies before generating full songs, a technique the team calls Melody-CoT. The model achieves state-of-the-art results on 13 of 16 objective metrics and, in blind tests, wins against Suno V5 and MiniMax Music 2.6.
2026-07-20
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax just shipped a model for every AI job you can name
Chinese AI startup MiniMax launches M3, Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Code, and new speech/music models, broadening its product lineup in a competitive landscape.
2026-07-06