Luckily for all of us, Nguyen says the problem has now been solved, thanks to Suno. He wrote about Suno, “I am so proud and honored to have the opportunity to work at a company that is enabling music creation for everyone.” Suno recently completed a $250 million funding round, valuing the company at $2.45 billion. And it’s understandable why the company is so highly regarded – not just because it’s solved the long-standing problem of making the act of singing a free thing, affordable, but because its platform is getting so much use.
In the vast ocean of reprehensible marketing ploys this is one of the most incredibly cynical marketing tricks I have ever seen. An instrument that could replace human musicians isn’t valued at $2.45 billion because investors want to help poor children realize their dreams. https://t.co/F78G1OjvtP
– Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) 25 November 2025
According to Billboard, which obtained investor presentation materials from Listen, its users are creating approximately seven million songs per day and over the course of two weeks, create as many songs as are currently available on Spotify. Its users, mostly young men, spend more than 20 minutes a day composing their own music, something the young Nguyen could only dream of. Now, anyone can become a music artist — something that Suno apparently doesn’t value at all, given that the company only paid $2,000 in total on the music it used to train its models, according to Billboard.
This figure is so low, not because Suno did not use the work of other artists to train its model. No, the entire platform and the work it does is built entirely on music that was created by creators who had to find ways to learn to play on their own. According to a pitch deck sent to investors, the company reportedly spent just $2,000 on training data as it is reportedly extracting songs from YouTube and making them available for free. This is the claim of major music labels Sony, Universal and Warner, who are currently suing Listen for copyright infringement “on an almost unimaginable scale”. Similar lawsuits have also been filed by the labels in Denmark and Germany.
You are basically an angry and evil person. You and technical people like you are a burden on humanity. You all have wasted your precious lives without achieving anything. I pray for your immense suffering. https://t.co/trBhSEEwqs
– Haus of Decline (@hausofdecline) 25 November 2025
Billboard notes that despite the fact that these lawsuits are hanging over the company’s head, there is no mention of them in its investor pitch deck, nor are there any plans to license music to train its models. It seems like the plan is to just drive around in the truck, emptying as much data as possible. So ultimately, the act of making music is affordable. All it took was a complete devaluing of the product of that creative process.
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