- Suno is the company.
- Bark is a text-to-speech AI created by Suno.
- Chirp was the original name for the text-to-song AI, but has since been re-branded as ‘Suno’.
What happened to Bark?
Bark is an open source text-to-speech technology created by Suno.
It is free to download from Github, and is currently running as a free bot on several platforms, including HuggingFace.
Bark has been retired from the Suno Discord. It is not expected to return.
What happened to Chirp?
Chirp was the original name for the text-to-song technology created by Suno. The service has since been rebranded as ‘Suno’, with individual AI models named for their version numbers (v1, v2, v3…)
Chirp, now called Suno, is proprietary technology that has never been released as open source. It is exclusive to Suno.com.
Chirp (v1) has been retired from the Suno Discord. It is not expected to return.