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The labels bought equity, not just injunctions, in Stability AI's $76mn round
Universal, Warner and Sony Music now own a piece of the company selling licensed music models. The money funds a narrower Stability: professional tooling, sold through a plugin.
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What happened
- Universal, Warner and Sony Music all took equity in Stability AI's $76mn Series B, alongside Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
- Universal signed a co-development alliance with Stability in October 2025 and Warner followed a month later.
- Stability's Stable Audio 3.0, launched in May, is open-weight and trained on what the company says is fully licensed data.
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Why it matters
- decisionTwo of the three labels have already sued or settled with generative audio firms; owning shares in one of them turns a copyright question into a shareholder question, and makes suing this...
- constraintA vendor whose customers are also its shareholders has little room to sell to anyone those shareholders would rather not serve, which limits Stability's audio business to the professional tier its...
- exposure
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New investors in the round include Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Group, Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
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The round brings Stability's total funding to $232mn under chief executive Prem Akkaraju, covering two equity rounds and convertible notes since he took the job in June 2024.
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According to the announcement, the capital will fund the product suite for creative production, deepen the applied research discipline and expand the professional services arm.
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Stability now calls itself a maker of purpose-built AI products for professional creatives in music, gaming and entertainment, a narrower brief than the one it once had.
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- thenextweb.comCristian Dina7h agoStability AI raises $76mn from Universal, Warner, Sony Music and EA
- techcrunch.comLucas Ropek7h agoStability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
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