Universal Music Group didn’t merely settle its lawsuit with the AI music-generating service Udio in a deal announced yesterday — the world’s largest record company is now partnering with Udio to build a new kind of AI music service. The idea, execs for both companies tell Rolling Stone , is a service that — with artists’ permission — will allow listeners to use AI to revamp well-known songs, utilize singers’ actual voices for new creations, and mash up multiple artists’ styles, among other innovations.

“The vision is that you’re gonna be able to consume and interact with your favorite songs and artists in the same place,” Udio CEO Andrew Sanchez tells Rolling Stone . “I might wanna listen to songs that are made by my favorite band, and then maybe I wanna remix one. Or, ‘I’ve

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