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Swyx: Suno grew from zero to $20M ARR running on Modal
“Suno ramp has rated as one of the top ranked fastest growing startups of the year. I think the last public number is like zero to twenty million this year in ARR and Suno runs on Moto. So Suno itself is not GPU rich, but they're just doing the training on, on …”
Shawn Wang Jan 1, 2025 ▶ 44:12 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
Assertion Contradicted
Shulman: Bark was the first open-source transformer-based TTS model
“As far as I know there was no other certainly not in the open source text to speech that was kind of transformer based.”
Mikey Shulman Mar 14, 2024 ▶ 15:48 Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
Assertion Supported
Suno Uses Modal for Its AI Music Production Infrastructure
“Yeah, so, I mean, they're using model for, like, production infrastructure, like, they have their own, like, custom model, like, custom code and custom weights, you know, for AI-generated music, Suno.ai.”
Erik Bernhardsson Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 32:22 Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
Assertion Supported
Shulman: Suno's first release was open-source TTS model Bark
“In fact, we, the first thing we ever put out was a speech model. It was Bark. It was this open source text-to-speech model, and it got a lot of stars on GitHub,”
Mikey Shulman Mar 14, 2024 ▶ 13:49 Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
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