India’s first AI-based music tech startup, Beatoven.ai plans to expand in 2023

Beatoven.ai, India's first AI-backed music tech startup, was founded by two IIIT- Allahabad graduates, Siddharth Bhardwaj and Mansoor Rahimat Khan, to assist content creators in resolving the issue of music licensing and its development. 

Headquartered in Bangalore, Beatoven.ai provides a platform for composers to create economical royalty-free music. The main objective of the startup was to fuse music and technology, by putting enough emphasis on AI advancement in upcoming years. 

How does this AI technology work?

With its deep-learning networks, this AI technology benefits creators in analysing complex music data. For instance, if a user demands a one-minute track, this AI will generate five options in 10 seconds. 

To create an understandable track, the large data which was analysed by AI helped in the arrangement of all samples from artists to train AI-based models to develop a structure that integrates all these layers vertically and horizontally. 

On its operation, the founders believe that,” Beatoven.ai was launched to revolutionise the sector by making access to music easy and affordable for millions of creators whilst keeping it royalty-free, and easily customisable as per their requirements.”

“We own all the rights to our music and content creators can use our music in their work without paying any royalties headache free” they added.

The company has further stressed generating region-specific music composition, which is spread all over India. We look forward to expanding our music library by adding ethnic music from different geographies like Chinese, Korean, Latin American, and others, claimed the creators, given the primary focus on classical music from our country.

Can this AI algorithm replace musicians?

AI is unique for every audience, but at the same time, it becomes the user's responsibility to curate and personalise it according to the individual's needs.

This company intends to not replace humans but rather work alongside them. The tool enlightens musicians on music composition, thus allowing freelancers to master and mix the tracks. AI is unique for every audience, but at the same time, it becomes the user's responsibility to curate and personalise it according to the individual's needs, expressed by founders. 

In 2018, Francois Pachet, musician and tech researcher, marked the release of the first pop album written with the help of Beatoven.ai. 

Future of this AI tool

According to the search history for music-based AI tools, India is estimated to have around 5–6 lakhs of user searches, demonstrating the huge desire for royalty-free music, as claimed by the company.