Google has launched Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music generation model designed to give creators far more control over longer, more complex compositions. The key upgrade is clear in the numbers: tracks up to three minutes long, compared to the 30-second-long tracks offered with the Lyria 3 model.
Lyria 3 Pro better understands musical composition, so users can now prompt for specific elements like intros, verses, choruses and bridges. This structural awareness marks a meaningful leap beyond earlier music AI tools, which often struggled to maintain coherence across a full song.
The distribution strategy reflects Google's broader AI ambitions. Longer generations with Lyria 3 Pro are now available in the Gemini app, starting with paid subscribers. The model is also rolling out to Google Vids, an AI-powered video creation app, where users can add custom music that matches their style for everything from creative projects to marketing videos. For developers and enterprises, Lyria 3 Pro is now in public preview on Vertex AI for businesses who require on-demand audio at scale.
The ProducerAI angle is particularly interesting. Google recently introduced ProducerAI, a collaborative music creation tool, and with Lyria 3 Pro, ProducerAI offers an agentic experience designed to help artists, producers and songwriters at every level iterate on comprehensive songs. This positions the tool as a creative assistant rather than a replacement for human musicianship.
The copyright question looms large. Google says responsibility was foundational in the design and training of Lyria 3, using materials that YouTube and Google has a right to use under their terms of service, partner agreements, and applicable law. More pointedly, Lyria 3 and Gemini do not mimic artists; if a prompt names a creator, the model takes that as broad inspiration.
Here in Australia, the government has taken a firm stand. Attorney-General Michelle Rowland confirmed the government has no plans to water-down existing copyright protections, stating: "There is a body of work to do around what the copyright environment looks like in the AI world, but we are making it very clear that we will not be entertaining a text and data mining exception." This stance is critical: by 2028, up to 23% of music creators' revenues could be threatened by unlicensed use of their works through generative AI platforms, with cumulative potential losses estimated at more than AUD $519 million.
Every Lyria 3 Pro track will carry SynthID, Google's imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content. The watermarking addresses a real tension: the technology is genuinely creative and useful, but its outputs need to be clearly identified in a media environment increasingly saturated with AI-generated content.
The launch represents a clear move toward integrated AI music creation across Google's ecosystem. Whether Lyria 3 Pro becomes a tool that genuinely empowers independent creators or a business tool that concentrates more creative power in the hands of large platforms will depend partly on pricing, partly on how licensing conversations with the music industry play out, and partly on whether Australia and other jurisdictions follow through on protecting creator rights through licensing frameworks rather than copyright erosion.