Welcome, humans.

Google has an AI music studio you can use right now, and most people don't know it exists.

It's called


Flow Music


. It lives inside Google Labs, it's powered by

Google's Lyria 3 model

, and it started life as a startup called Producer AI (advised by The Chainsmokers, no less). Google acquired the team in February 2026.

So how good is the actual product? Can you write a song from a single sentence? Generate a music video? Build your own custom synthesizer?

We had to find out for ourselves.

In

our latest episode

, Corey sat down with

Kendall Rankin

, who left LinkedIn in 2024 to join Producer AI when it was still a startup, and who's now part of the Flow Music team at Google.

Together, they generated a garage rock song about AI from scratch, queued up a music video, and walked through the messy middle of working with an AI music agent.

Watch it now to see:

• 
  

  
  
  
  (04:16)
  
  
  
  The live demo:
  
  Flow Music takes "garage rock song about AI" and turns it into actual music with lyrics, fuzz guitar, and background vocals. The first pass fumbles, the second pass nails it. That iteration loop is the whole story.
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  
  
  (12:35)
  
  
  
  "Spaces" explained:
  
  Flow Music's custom-app feature, where you can build your own instruments and synthesizers (think a mini keyboard or a custom plugin you'd drop into Pro Tools or whatever DAW you use).
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  
  
  (18:30)
  
  
  
  The artist question:
  
  Kendall's framing for why AI music tools are a new medium, not a replacement, and how YouTube's industry relationships shape what gets built into the product.
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  
  
  (32:03)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SynthID
  
  
  (Google's invisible audio watermarking, baked into every Lyria 3 output) and how it's supposed to protect creators once AI-generated music starts circulating online.
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  
  
  (33:38)
  
  
  
  One-shot music videos:
  
  how Veo (Google's video model) turns your song into a full music video in about ten minutes, with the AI asking for creative direction along the way.
  

  
  

Why watch this?

Most AI music demos hand you a polished finished song and skip the part where things go sideways. This one

is

the part where things go sideways. You see the first generation fumble on background vocals, watch Corey ask for "more fuzz," and see the second pass actually land. That's the part anyone considering these tools actually cares about: how iterable is this thing in practice?

Plus, Kendall has been on the inside since the Refusion days through the Google acquisition. Hearing how a music AI startup thinks about working

with

artists (instead of replacing them) is rare context for anyone trying to figure out where this category is headed.

Watch / Listen now on:


YouTube

|

Spotify

|

Apple Podcasts

Try the tools we covered:

• 
  

  (now Flow Music)
  
  is the live tool, free to try right now.
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  
  Google Labs
  
  is where Flow Music lives alongside other Google experiments.
  

  
  


• 
  

  
  Background on
  
  Lyria 3
  
  , the model powering all the audio generation.
  

  
  

If you've been waiting for an AI music tool that treats musicians like collaborators instead of competition, this episode is your in.

P.S.



We may or may not be considering that song as the new podcast intro music.

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