{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-google-lyria-3-5/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-29-google-lyria-3-5/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-07-29-google-lyria-3-5","date":"2026-07-29","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google launches Lyria 3.5 music model in Flow Music","deck":"Gemini API GA follows","takeaway":null,"category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Google: Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music","url":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"blog.google"},{"n":2,"title":"Lyria 3.5 model card","url":"https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/lyria-3-5/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"deepmind.google"},{"n":3,"title":"Gemini API music generation docs","url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/music-generation","type":"docs","group":"primary","domain":"ai.google.dev"},{"n":4,"title":"Gemini API pricing","url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing","type":"docs","group":"primary","domain":"ai.google.dev"},{"n":5,"title":"Tech Times on Lyria 3.5","url":"https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322113/20260729/googles-lyria-35-sharpens-vocals-lyrics-while-rivals-fight-court.htm","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techtimes.com"}],"official":4,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"],"title":"Google launches Lyria 3.5 music model in Flow Music; Gemini API GA follows","summary":"Google DeepMind released Lyria 3.5, its third Lyria model in about five months, first in Google Flow Music, with better melodies, lyrics, more natural vocals and tempo/duration control; it became generally available in the Gemini API as lyria-3.5 on 2026-09-03 at $0.08 per full song.","key_facts":["Launched 2026-07-29 in Google Flow Music (the former ProducerAI)","Improvements: musicality, lyric quality and prompt adherence, vocal expressiveness and pronunciation, tempo and duration control","Gemini API id lyria-3.5 (Stable, Interactions API), GA 2026-09-03; $0.08 per song, no free tier","44.1 kHz stereo MP3/WAV, text + image input, SynthID watermark","Lyria 3 Clip/Pro previews now labelled legacy on the Gemini API pricing page"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["music-generation","lyria","api"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nLyria 3.5 replaced Lyria 3 Pro behind Google Flow Music's song generation on launch day, at no extra cost to Flow Music users. About five weeks later it reached general availability for developers in the Gemini API's Interactions API. As of 2026-09-29 it was not yet listed on Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), which still offers Lyria 3 previews and Lyria 2.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nGoogle now ships a GA, watermarked, pay-per-song music model to developers, something Suno (web app only, API only \"being explored\") and Udio (no public API) do not offer.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-09-15-gemini-3-8-live-and-tts","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-gemini-3-8-live-and-tts/","date":"2026-09-15","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live voice models and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with voice design and cloning","deck":null,"takeaway":"Completes a full voice stack (transcription, reasoning, real-time dialogue, speech synthesis, cloning) on one API; voice cloning also raises misuse concerns.","category":"product","category_label":"Products","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":12,"official":10,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-30","orgs":["Google"]},{"id":"2026-02-25-google-acquires-producerai","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-25-google-acquires-producerai/","date":"2026-02-25","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google acquires ProducerAI, later relaunched as Google Flow Music","deck":null,"takeaway":"Google gained a dedicated music-creation product and team, putting it in direct competition with Suno and Udio with an in-house model stack.","category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":6,"official":3,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-10-09","orgs":["Google","ProducerAI"]},{"id":"2026-02-18-google-lyria-3-gemini-app","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-18-google-lyria-3-gemini-app/","date":"2026-02-18","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google launches Lyria 3","deck":"Song generation with vocals in the Gemini app","takeaway":"It put a Suno-class song generator in front of Gemini's mass consumer audience and gave developers a first-party, pay-per-song music API with watermarking and C2PA credentials.","category":"media-generation","category_label":"Media generation","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":5,"official":4,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[{"id":"google-gemini-introducing-lyria-3-5","title":"Introducing Lyria 3.5 Music Generation in Gemini","url":"https://postcutoff.com/v/google-gemini-introducing-lyria-3-5/"}],"models":[{"id":"lyria-3-5","name":"Lyria 3.5","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/lyria-3-5/"}],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-07"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":90,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":29,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":120,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":59,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}