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AI · May 11, 2025

ACE-Step

Fast, high-coherence AI music, now more accessible

ACE-Step launched on May 11, 2025 with 14 votes, #1,114 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

ACE-Step is an open-source foundation model for fast, coherent music generation by ACE Studio & StepFun. Offers strong controllability (edit, repaint) & multilingual support. Now runs on 8GB VRAM. Models & demo on Hugging Face.  

🚀 We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face inherent trade-offs between generation speed, musical coherence, and controllability. For instance, LLM-based models (e.g., Yue, SongGen) excel at lyric alignment but suffer from slow inference and structural artifacts. Diffusion models (e.g., DiffRhythm), on the other hand, enable faster synthesis but often lack long-range structural coherence. 🎼 🌉 ACE-Step bridges this gap by integrating diffusion-based generation with Sana's Deep Compression…from ace-step.github.io

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