Short answer: Jordan Metzner says Suno raised a $250 million Series C from Menlo at about a $2.5 billion valuation. Sam Nadler says Suno generates produced music from one prompt, and the Built This Week theme song was made with it.
Watch this answer from Episode 22 (starts at 23:03) · Episode 22 notes and transcript
From Episode 22: Let's do the Math!, starting at 23:03.
Jordan Metzner [23:02]: Last story of the day, real quick. Major funding news from Suno. I don't know if you've used Suno, Carina, but I love to use Suno. I find it to be so fun. I think it's a great party trick. But, yeah, Suno raised a $250,000,000 series c from Menlo at something like a $2,500,000,000 valuation. I know we've talked about them a few times on here, Sam, but, yeah, curious who's thoughts.
Sam Nadler [23:27]: Suno allows you to quickly generate, like, highly produced music from a single prompt. And maybe to end out the episode, we'll we'll have a Axiom theme song that we can, layer on But it's a really fun tool. We with a quick prompt about Carina and Axiom, we could have a pop song, a reggae song. Oh, no. Who's talking about that? An idiom song. You name it. We could have, Axiom, prove out its, math problems in song, theoretically. No. I'm just joking here. But it's it's a fun tool that we like talking about. And in fact, like, the song of Built This Week, our podcast we created with Suno.
Carina [24:12]: Yeah. I remember playing with Suno. It's like, it's amazing that, like, I don't know anything about composition, but maybe there's some melody I want to turn it into reality, which, at one point, I feel like when the AI gets really, really good and, people who are hidden Ramanujans, who have mathematical creativity but having never sort of been trained to do formal proofs could probably, use the Axiom tool and get a, actual theorem just like music and artists creators using Suno.
Jordan Metzner [24:46]: Yeah. Totally. We covered on a previous episode, there's a new programming language where you can program music. And obviously, music at the end of the day is is incredibly mathematical. So it'll be interesting how, maybe with some new math inventions, we can invent some new styles of music.
Carina [25:03]: Most of the double major as in or, like, the humanities social science classes, the math majors that MIT take are music, actually, It's music
Jordan Metzner [25:12]: It's incredibly mathematical. And, it doesn't really matter, like, what instrument you play. The more you learn about the instrument, the more you get into the, learning about the triads and the triplicates and, how the notes and chords are created. Alright, Carina. Well, this was a great episode. Thank you so much for joining us. Sam, this was awesome. Love to learn about Axiom, talk about math, build some new tools this week. Obviously, Gemini three's kept me up all night. I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna continue to work on it and play with some new stuff. But, yeah, this was really fun.
Sam Nadler [25:44]: Carina, thank you. It was a pleasure. This is a pretty big pivot from our normal routine episode, so it's been extremely informative and really appreciate you coming on.
Carina [25:54]: Thank you so much. Yeah. Was a lot of fun.
Jordan Metzner [25:56]: See you all next week. Bye.
