Google DeepMind's Lyria 3.5 Takes Direct Aim at Suno's Vocal Dominance
Google DeepMind's Lyria 3.5 lands in Flow Music with better vocals, exact BPM control, and stem exports for full-length songs
- Lyria 3.5 is live: Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5, now powering Google Flow Music with improved musicality, vocals, lyrics, and creative control.
- Key new features: Exact BPM targeting and stem exports for full-length songs, enabling AI-generated audio to slot into traditional DAW workflows.
- Vocal upgrade: More expressive, emotionally nuanced singing with improved pronunciation, directly targeting Suno's historical advantage.
- Industry push: Believe and TuneCore partnership brings Flow Music to a new generation of artists as a built-in creative collaborator.
- Copyright lawsuit pending: Independent musicians have sued Google alleging Lyria 3 was trained on copyrighted YouTube recordings without consent.
- API pricing: A full 3-minute AI song via Lyria 3 Pro costs ~$0.08 via API, compared to hundreds of dollars for human-composed stock music.
Google DeepMind has released Lyria 3.5, its latest AI music generation model, deploying it directly inside Google Flow Music. The upgrade touches every layer of the stack: prompt adherence, vocal expressiveness, melodic transitions, and precise control over tempo and song length.
From research toy to production tool
The Lyria family has moved fast. Lyria 3 launched with 30-second high-fidelity tracks generated from text or image prompts through the Gemini app. Lyria 3 Pro expanded that to full songs up to three minutes, adding structural coherence so tracks could include proper intros, verses, choruses, and bridges. Lyria 3.5 pushes the model further, prioritizing quality over length.
Google Flow Music is an AI-driven platform for composing, publishing, and sharing original music. Its "Chat with Producer" interface generates full-length songs with dynamic vocals, and the platform draws on Gemini, Veo, and Nano Banana models for chat, video, and image generation. Think of it less as a Suno clone and more as an AI-native DAW being assembled piece by piece.
What actually changed in 3.5
The four pillars of the upgrade, straight from the official announcement:
- Improved musicality: Richer, more complex melodic structures that sound more natural.