Multimodal Art Projection Releases YuE2 Music Generation AI for Free
YuE2 gives musicians and researchers a locally runnable music generation model whose input includes sheet music in ABC notation, a capability the release materials pair with reported performance close to Suno 5.
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Multimodal Art Projection released the music generation AI YuE2 on September 10, 2026. The development team describes it as an open music generation model comparable to Suno 5. YuE2 accepts text and sheet music in ABC notation as input, and generated examples with Japanese vocals are posted on its official site. The model runs locally, and the development team reports a 214.85-second song generated in 71.04 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. The license is CC BY-NC 4.0.
YuE2 is distributed under CC BY-NC 4.0 and can be run locally, with weights posted on Hugging Face. In the development team's testing on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 24GB of VRAM, the model generated a 214.85-second song in 71.04 seconds, with peak memory consumption of 14.08GiB.
The input options go beyond text prompts. YuE2 also accepts sheet music written in ABC notation, and the official site posts generation examples including songs with Japanese vocals. The team presents the model's quality and text understanding as close to Suno 5, and higher than Suno 5 when selecting the best of eight generated songs.
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