Suno v6 Is Trained on Licensed Warner and BMG Music

Suno launched v6 on 9 September, a new generation of music models it says was developed with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe — the first Suno models built on catalogue the labels agreed to license. It ships in three tiers, and Suno is retiring every model that came before it.

The flagship v6 goes to Pro and Premier subscribers as the dependable option, pitched at creators who already know what they want. v6-wild, also paid-only, is deliberately looser — "less predictable and more varied," aimed at producers chasing an idea they would not have arrived at themselves. v6-mini is free to everyone and faster, and Suno claims it beats any other free model on any music creation platform.

The training-data question is the one the music industry has been litigating for two years, and Suno's answer is that v6 was rebuilt rather than patched. Chief product officer Jack Brody said the models were trained "entirely from scratch, from the ground up," and that the corpus excludes recordings from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment — the two majors still suing. What it includes is licensed Warner, BMG and Believe material, plus Suno's own user preference data, which the company is careful to distinguish from audio that users upload.

Money moves the other way too. "From launch day, a portion of our revenue will be shared with our partners," Brody said, with rightsholders deciding how that capital reaches artists. Terms were not disclosed. Suno settled with Warner in November 2025, signed BMG last month, and is now folding in music from participating Believe and TuneCore artists.

As a product release, v6 is a bigger jump than the version number suggests. Creators can rewrite one section of an existing song in plain language — "change the chorus so it's sung by a gospel choir" — while leaving the rest intact. Mashups can be assembled from several sources in a single request. One prompt can sample a riff at a given timestamp, isolate the guitar and build a beat around it in a single workflow. v6 also accepts text, audio, images and video as starting material, so a voice memo or a photograph can seed a track, and a single lyric can be swapped a word at a time without rebuilding the song.

Suno says it has also tightened the guardrails, screening uploaded audio and lyrics for unauthorized use and giving listeners more transparency about how AI was used in a track — a response to a flood that has already pushed AI-generated files to 44% of Deezer's daily uploads.

None of this clears the legal board. Universal and Sony remain plaintiffs in the Boston federal case, where discovery closes on 30 September. Suno lost to GEMA in Munich on 31 July in Europe's first ruling on AI music training; Denmark's Koda sued in Copenhagen in November 2025, and Canada's SOCAN filed on 2 September. Round Hill Music is seeking up to $1 billion in damages, a class action from four artists landed on 1 September, and a separate user suit alleges negligence over a data breach. Suno has raised more than $819 million to date, including a $400 million round at a $5.4 billion valuation in June that was framed around exactly this pivot.

Chief executive Mikey Shulman described the next phase in terms of individual artists rather than catalogues: "opt-in experiences built around individual artists, where artists can choose to participate and get paid." That is the part the labels will actually judge, because it is the part that converts a licensing settlement into a revenue line. For now, v6 is the first chance to hear what a model built with major-label consent sounds like next to one built without it.