Stability AI raises $76M with rights holders

Stability AI raised $76 million in Series B funding from Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and others, taking its disclosed total to about $232 million, according to Variety’s funding report. The investor list follows licensing deals with major rights holders, turning capital into a vote for commercially governed training data rather than purely scraped scale. Creative-AI teams should treat licensed catalogs as both a financing signal and a distribution constraint, extending the archive’s analysis of Sora’s rights-market reset.