He built TikTok's music AI tech. But he says robots will never replace human songwriters.

<p>Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by <a href='https://www.volymusic.com/'>Voly Music</a>. <br/><br/>On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability AI – and one of the world&apos;s foremost experts on generative AI in the field of music. <br/><br/>An entrepreneur and inventor, Newton-Rex built the pioneering AI-driven music-making platform Jukedeck, before selling it to TikTok in 2019. <br/><br/>He then went on to work at TikTok as Product Director of the company&apos;s AI Lab – as TikTok looked to build on Jukedeck&apos;s impressive song-forming technology. <br/> <br/>Newton-Rex left TikTok in 2021 to join music startup Voisey, which was subsequently sold to Snap Inc (parent of Snapchat).<br/><br/>These days, Newton-Rex is VP of Audio at Stability AI, which is best known as the home of AI-powered text-to-image creator Stable Diffusion.</p><p>The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by <a href='https://www.volymusic.com/'>Voly Music</a>.</p>