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Why Independent Artists Need a Fair Generative-AI Royalty Model

Edward Balassanian — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:40:31 +0000

Last week Forbes reported that Universal, Sony, and Warner are negotiating blanket licensing pacts with Suno and Udio—start-ups often called the “ChatGPTs of music.” The majors will hand over decades of catalog masters in exchange for cash, ongoing fees, and even equity stakes. From the labels’ perspective it’s pragmatic: monetize AI instead of suing it. For individual creators—especially…

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AI Generated Music Collapse: How Aimi Avoids It

Edward Balassanian — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:21:49 +0000

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ recent column in The Register, “AI model collapse is coming for generative content,” describes models that keep retraining on their own output until every iteration becomes a blur—a photocopy of a photocopy. Long before that piece, Aimi had already built its product thesis around the same threat. Our 2023 post “Why Is AI Music Generation Uniquely Challenging?

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DCO Is Missing Its Secret Weapon: SOUND

Jeremy Jolis — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:44:44 +0000

Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) lets you swap out ad elements like images, text, and calls to action in real time, based on who’s seeing the ad. It’s become a go-to tool for improving performance and making creative more relevant at scale. A McKinsey meta-study of dozens of brands found that tailoring messages with first-party data lifts overall marketing return on investment by…

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Fair-Use Fault Lines in Generative AI & What They Mean for Music

Edward Balassanian — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:54:31 +0000

Last week U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria issued a set of 12 razor-sharp questions ahead of the summary-judgment hearing in Kadrey v. Meta—a lawsuit that claims Meta trained its Llama language model on “pirated” e-books. His order signals that courts are no longer asking whether AI training implicates copyright, but how deeply it cuts. Key themes include: Reuters captured the…

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Aimi CEO Interview -Now on LinkedIn

Edward Balassanian — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:53:23 +0000

Listen to Aimi CEO, Edward Balassanian on the latest episode of Walter Thompson’s podcast. In this episode: Edward Balassanian didn’t come from the music industry. He wasn’t a DJ, producer, or engineer. But to build Aimi, a generative music platform that helps creators and enterprises license and stream AI-generated music in real time, he knew he had to become fluent in both the art and the…

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Splice Acquires Spitfire

Edward Balassanian — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:22:50 +0000

Splice’s surprise purchase of Spitfire Audio this week isn’t just another gear-company headline—it’s a flashing sign that the sample-library gold rush is winding down and the age of real-time, AI-generated soundtracks is here. Splice reportedly paid about $50 million for the British maker of high-end orchestra libraries, hoping to fold those sounds into its AI discovery engine and keep 600 k+…

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8-D Audio vs. Aimi: From Viral Headphone Trick to Living Electronic Soundtracks

Edward Balassanian — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:22:45 +0000

The first time you click a YouTube clip labelled “8-D AUDIO – USE HEADPHONES,” the music seems to swirl behind your eyes. That sensation is produced by nothing more exotic than rapid left-to-right panning, a splash of reverb, and some tone-shaping that mimics the way your ear flaps colour sound. The effect went mainstream in 2019, when TikTok creators and playlist curators discovered that the…

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Aimi expands AI generative music lineup with Aimi Sync

Edward Balassanian — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:51:27 +0000

Aimi Sync is our latest offering, delivering on our vision to enable bring generative music solutions to any creative workflow. Generate royalty free soundtracks for videos in minutes instead of days. No content ID risks. Soundtrack short or long format videos. Try Aimi Sync Free…

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AI Disruption In The Music Industry

Edward Balassanian — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:02:46 +0000

Other start-ups are also exploring functional music. Aimi is examining how individual electronic music producers can turn their music into infinite and interactive streams. Aimi’s listener app invites fans to manipulate the system’s generative parameters such as “intensity” or “texture”, or deciding when a drop happens.

Why Is AI Music Generation Uniquely Challenging?

Edward Balassanian — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:50:07 +0000

Technical Complexity & Low Tolerance for Errors: Music is sequential, multi-layered, and demands long-range coherence. Generating a passable image or poem is one challenge; creating a song that listeners enjoy is another. Even advanced AI teams note it’s “more difficult to create music worth listening to” – infusing a model with the musical taste and structure needed to please human ears .

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