2025
Awards
Best Open-Source Contribution to AI Music
Honors a freely shared, open contribution — code, models, or datasets — that benefits the wider AI music community.
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2025 Awards
Best Open-Source Contribution to AI Music
Award Field
AI Craft & Innovation
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Winner
ACE-Step (StepFun & ACE Studio)
Open-sourced on May 7, 2025 by StepFun and ACE Studio, ACE-Step generates full songs up to 15× faster than prior baselines while supporting voice cloning, lyric editing, and remixing — widely hailed as a “ChatGPT moment” for open AI music, and the year's standout open contribution.
Other nominees
Stable Audio Open
Open-weight audio models trained on licensed data (2025).
YuE (M-A-P, Apache 2.0)
An open lyrics-to-song model released in 2025.