# Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models

Stability AI released Stable Audio 3.0, a family of open-weights music models trained on licensed data, with variable-length generation up to six minutes.

- Stable Audio 3.0 Small SFX, Small, and Medium are open-weights and available on Hugging Face; Large is via API and self-hosting.
- Small generates up to two minutes, while Medium and Large generate more than six minutes.
- Outputs are owned by users and can be commercialized under the Stability AI Community License, with Enterprise license for organizations over $1M revenue.
- Supports LoRa fine-tuning, audio inpainting, and on-device full music composition for Small.

## Why it matters

Musicians and developers can now build and commercialize music generation models with open weights and licensed training data, enabling on-device and customizable audio creation.

## Sources

- [Stability AI: Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models](https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-model-family-built-for-artistic-experimentation-with-open-weight-models)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-05-20. https://dstilled.ai/story/c399ef71-891f-4436-965c-a4da7ae5808a