Google’s music-generating AI model Lyria 3 can produce about three minutes of audio with vocals and lyrics from text or images, with structure set by prompts. In a test, it generated a track reminiscent of Kendrick Lamar’s HUMBLE despite changes to the key, and handled a genre shift to orchestral accompaniment smoothly. But lyrics often did not fit melodies, and a jazz-style test sounded like a beginner’s improvisation, with repeated emphasis on a seventh tone. The reviewer said the music lacked a clear motif and narrative shape.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said AI will produce breakthroughs in disease, the environment and energy over the next decade, calling it the start of a new renaissance for human prosperity. Speaking in Seoul, he set out a vision of delivering “AI for everyone” at the frontier of artificial general intelligence. Participants said DeepMind did not present a concrete AGI definition or methodology, and discussed strategy and unresolved issues such as jagged intelligence.