Suno has rolled out v6, a new line of AI music models trained in partnership with Warner Music Group and BMG, replacing its previous models with versions built on licensed music2,3. The company said it will pay labels and publishers royalties when the models are used.
Suno v6 was trained on music from Warner Music Group. The company said the new model is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of its AI system. The shift comes as Suno grapples with a bevy of copyright lawsuits.
Users will not be able to reference specific artists in prompts under the new system.
ANALYSIS The licensing pivot and royalty commitment represent a structural change in how Suno sources its training data, moving from a model that attracted copyright litigation to one built on negotiated label partnerships. The restriction on artist-name prompts aligns with the licensed framework by limiting outputs that could closely mimic specific copyrighted catalogs.
By naming Warner Music Group and BMG as training partners and committing to per-use royalty payments, Suno is attempting to resolve the core legal exposure that its earlier, unlicensed training practices created. Whether the existing lawsuits are affected by the transition to licensed data remains a separate legal question the available evidence does not address.