Staff Software Engineer

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEAmateur musicians now have a digital band of AI assistants ready to help at every stage of music creation—from inspiration to final mastering. Whether you're struggling with writer's block, can't quite nail that perfect melody, or just want to experiment with new sounds, there's an AI tool that fits your needs.In fact, there’s an overwhelming amount of tools for musicians and would-be musicians.After reviewing dozens of AI music tools from our recent research, here are the best options for each stage of the song creation process.Finding Your MuseSometimes all you need is some inspiration to start your creative journey. These tools will help you find new ideas, moods, tones, and even brand new references that might help you conceptualize your musical masterpiece.SunoWhat it does: Suno is the go-to source for generating songs from simple text prompts. With just a few words describing what you want, this tool creates fully-realized songs, complete with vocals.Paid plans unlock longer tracks, new models that generate more coherent songs with higher-quality audio, as well as tools that will automatically make your song longer. The premium tier also offers the ability to more precisely edit your track and change its lyrics, and provides commercial protection for your masterpiece.Who it's for: Songwriters looking for instant inspiration, people who want to quickly create a full song from a concept, and musicians experimenting with AI-generated tracks as starting point

Late last year, Suno launched V4, which it claimed would take AI music creation "to the next level", delivering cleaner audio, sharper lyrics and more dynamic song structures.

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe generative AI landscape has morphed into a high-stakes battleground in 2024, with an army of upstarts storming the castle once ruled by OpenAI.Everyone and their tech-savvy grandma seems to be vying for a piece of the AI pie, cooking up language models, agentic AIs, image generators, and even an AI meme coin shiller or two.The benchmarks are changing faster than our human ability to keep up. Barely a week goes by without some shiny new toy hitting the market—an updated LLM here, a turbocharged image generator there, or a next-gen AI flexing some exotic training technique.But here at Decrypt, we've rolled up our sleeves and tried them all.We've kicked the tires, pushed the buttons, and gotten deep inside the inner workings and the outputs provided by the most popular AI models—and some that are not so well-known.Now that it's clear that OpenAI isn't the only sheriff in town, we've compiled a list of the cream of the crop—the generative AI models that have wowed us, befuddled us, and occasionally made us spit out our coffee.ChatbotsA chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users. It uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to understand user inputs and generate appropriate responses. Usually, people confuse chatbots with LLMs, or large language models.Today, chatbots are a bit more complex, with capabilities that extend beyond text generation. They can now browse the web, generate and understand images, talk to the user, etc.Here is our list of the best chatbots you should try:Gold medal: OpenAI's ChatGPTChatGPT offers a wide array of features at $20/month, including custom agent creation with natural language, a clean interface, web search, and multiple models (reasoning, writing, vision, voice, and image generation).Silver medal: Anthropic's ClaudeA superior LLM with an intuitive UI featuring split-screen artifacts for reasoning and code generation, Claude supports million-token context and custom agents