Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music, the Napster co-founder told The Information. Two years after joining an $80 million rescue of the image-generation startup, Parker and CEO Prem Akkaraju are taking the wraps off the company’s new direction.

In late August, Stability announced $76 million in funding from Sony, Warner and Universal, which also licensed their catalogues for training as part of the deal. The company has since released three new audio models and AI music-editing software.

The AI can generate whole instrumental tracks or short snippets from text prompts. Parker says an upcoming update will let users hum a melody or beatbox a drum pattern to steer the output.

The pivot turns Stability into a go-to AI toolmaker for music professionals. Parker says he is playing by the rules this time, conceding that asking for forgiveness rather than permission did not work in the Napster era.

Why it matters: having the big three labels both invest and license is a notable shift for AI music, which has mostly meant lawsuits and scraped data.