Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

肖恩·帕克（Sean Parker）正围绕音乐领域重塑 Stability AI

Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, has jumped back into the music industry, and he tells The Information that he’s playing by the rules this time. (Asking for forgiveness rather than permission didn’t work out so well last time around, he readily concedes.) Napster 的联合创始人肖恩·帕克（Sean Parker）已重返音乐行业。他向《The Information》表示，这一次他会按规矩办事。（他坦率地承认，上次那种“先斩后奏”的做法效果并不理想。）

Two years ago, he joined an $80 million rescue of Stability AI, the image-generator startup that nearly collapsed after overspending and internal turmoil led to founder Emad Mostaque’s ouster. Now Parker and his longtime friend Prem Akkaraju, who became CEO, are taking the wraps off what they’ve been building. 两年前，他参与了对 Stability AI 的 8000 万美元救助计划。这家图像生成初创公司此前因过度支出和内部动荡导致创始人 Emad Mostaque 被罢免，一度濒临倒闭。如今，帕克和他的多年好友、现任首席执行官 Prem Akkaraju 终于揭开了他们这段时间以来的研发成果。

The big idea, Parker says, is to turn Stability into the go-to AI toolmaker for music professionals. Toward that end, in late August, the company announced $76 million in funding from, among others, Sony, Warner, and Universal, which also licensed their catalogs for training as part of the deal. 帕克表示，他们的核心构想是将 Stability 打造成音乐专业人士首选的 AI 工具制造商。为此，该公司在 8 月下旬宣布获得 7600 万美元融资，投资方包括索尼（Sony）、华纳（Warner）和环球音乐（Universal）等。作为交易的一部分，这些唱片公司还授权了各自的音乐库供其进行模型训练。

Stability has since released three new audio models and AI music-editing software. The AI can generate whole instrumental tracks or short snippets from text prompts. Parker says an upcoming update will let users hum a melody or beatbox a drum pattern to steer it. 此后，Stability 发布了三款新的音频模型和 AI 音乐编辑软件。该 AI 可以根据文本提示生成完整的器乐曲目或短片段。帕克透露，即将推出的更新将允许用户通过哼唱旋律或口技（beatbox）打出鼓点来引导 AI 进行创作。