# AI music
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MiniMax’s Music 2.5 Sparks Hong Kong AI Rally — Signal of China’s Shift from Model Hype to Vertical Commercialisation
MiniMax’s launch of Music 2.5 — a music-generation model with stronger structural control and vocal fidelity — triggered sharp gains in Hong Kong AI stocks, highlighting a market pivot toward application-ready AI. Combined with open-source and deployment-focused releases from other domestic players, the episode underscores a broader shift in China’s AI industry from model-size competition to vertical, engineering-led commercialisation.
China’s Kunlun Tiangong Aims to Build an ‘AI Spotify’ Abroad as Music Models Hit a 2026 Inflection Point
Kunlun Tiangong founder Zhou Yahui says the company’s Mureka V8 music model marks a 2026 inflection point for AI-composed music and plans to launch an overseas, Spotify-like AI music platform. The firm will avoid direct competition with China’s ByteDance and Tencent, collaborate domestically, and focus overseas on productising AI-generated music via creator tools, a consumer app and APIs. Zhou argues AI music and short-form AI dramas could be the first major categories disrupted by native AI platforms in the next 1–3 years.