Alibaba Launches Happy Xiami AI Music Model in Taihe Partnership

Alibaba shut down its Xiami Music streaming service on Feb. 5, 2021, after years of intense competition and rising licensing costs in China’s digital-music market. Roughly five years later, the company is reviving the Xiami brand through generative artificial intelligence, targeting a music value chain that spans songwriting, vocals and distribution while seeking a workable framework for copyright clearance and commercial use.

Alibaba has launched Happy Xiami 1.0, an end-to-end model that generates a complete song from text prompts, including lyrics, composition, arrangement and vocals. The company also announced a strategic partnership with Taihe Music Group, a major Chinese-language music company. The two sides plan to combine Alibaba’s AI technology with Taihe’s copyright catalog and distribution resources to build an ecosystem for commercially released AI-generated music.