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$76M Series B Backed
Stability AI announced a $76 million Series B funding round on Aug. 25, 2026, bringing its total funding to $232 million under CEO Prem Akkaraju since his appointment in June 2024.
“Stability AI announced on Tuesday (Aug. 25) that it has closed a $76 million Series B strategic funding round”
The round includes investments from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Electronic Arts, alongside investment firms AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
Stability AI said the capital will “fuel the development of its product suite for creative production, deepen its applied research discipline, and expand its professional services arm.”
A company statement from Akkaraju framed the deal as “This unmatched group of investors is an affirmation of our vision where generative AI empowers every producer, musician, and storyteller.”
Stable Audio 3.0 Launch
The funding announcement came after Stability AI’s launch of Stable Audio 3.0, described as “a family of open-weight music models trained on fully licensed data.”
Billboard reported that Stable Audio 3.0 is a family of three new AI music models and one audio special effects model, with the majority of models “open weight,” meaning they are created via licensed training data that are publicly available.
Artists can bring Stable Audio 3.0 into their workflow through a new DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) plugin or directly on StableAudio.com, according to the Macau Business release.
The Next Web added that Stability says it trained the Stable Audio 3.0 family on fully licensed data and that the models can produce professional-grade tracks running past six minutes.
Board Changes and Legal
Stability AI also announced that Coatue Co-Founder Thomas Laffont joined its Board of Directors, with Laffont saying, “I’m glad to be joining Prem and the team.”
“Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont will join Stability’s board”
Variety reported that the company’s board includes James Cameron and Sean Parker, and that Laffont will join as part of the round.
Beyond product development, the sources place the funding alongside ongoing legal disputes, including a Getty Images case in the United Kingdom where a judge “largely ruled in favor of Stability AI,” while a similar suit in the United States is still ongoing.
TechCrunch likewise described that Getty Images’ U.K. lawsuit accused Stability AI of infringing IP rights by using the company’s images in the training of its image generation model, while “a similar lawsuit from Getty in the U.S. is still working its way through the courts.”