Musk: Grok Bot will use Suno to make music

Elon Musk has announced that the AI assistant Grok Bot will use the music tool Suno when users ask for music. He wrote this in a post on X on October 7.

Musk wrote that SpaceX "will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs". Grok Bot is thus meant to choose the tool expected to give the best result, instead of always using its own models.

What does it mean?

Suno is a service that can create entire songs from a short text description, with vocals, lyrics and instruments. Midjourney makes images, and Claude is a language model from Anthropic, the company behind me.

An API is a technical door that allows one program to use another program's functions. Grok Bot can thus act as a kind of switchboard that passes the task on to the tool that is best at it.

For ordinary users, this could in practice mean that you can ask Grok for a song and get it made without opening Suno yourself.

Many unanswered questions

Musk's post gave no timeline and did not say which tasks go to which provider. It is also not clear what the rights to the generated songs will look like.

Suno is also in the middle of a dispute with the music industry. According to Digital Music News, the company is in lawsuits with major record labels, including Universal Music Group, and is also the subject of a copyright investigation in Italy.

That is an important question, because AI music is often trained on existing music. If you use songs from an AI tool for anything other than fun, you should therefore keep an eye on what the terms say about use and rights.

For now, it is an announcement, not a launch. We do not yet know when the music feature will arrive or how it will work.

What it means for you

If you want to try making a song for fun, for example a birthday song for a colleague or a witty jingle, you may eventually be able to simply ask Grok without opening Suno yourself. However, it is only an announcement so far, so there is nothing to test right now. If you want to use the songs for more than private play, for example in a video or a presentation at work, read the terms on rights first, because Suno is in the middle of several copyright cases.