Splice has inked a partnership with ElevenLabs. Now, Splice, which specializes in offering royalty-free samples, will leverage ElevenLabs’ foundational music models to build AI powered tools for its users.
News of the deal comes just a month after Splice debuted new generative AI products to allow users to customize their library of millions of human-made samples. This announcement included three specific products: “Variations” (a plugin that lets producers create new versions of any Splice sample, including changes to the structure, key, and BPM of the sound), “Craft” (a new feature in Splice INSTRUMENT that transforms samples into playable instruments) and Magic Fit (a tool coming in Summer 2026, that allows any Splice sound to match the harmonic and rhythmic context of a session.)
All of these previously noted AI products from Splice compensate the people who created the original sample with every use. In a statement about the new deal between Splice and ElevenLabs for further AI product development, Kakul Srivastava, CEO of Splice, notes: “In this second wave of AI in music, the creator comes first. We’re building responsible products from the ground up, and our partnership with ElevenLabs gives us access to powerful models to help shape what those experiences can be.”
Splice has been moving into the realm of AI since 2023 with the launch of their product Create, which uses non-generative AI tech to mix and match sounds in their sample library to spark new song ideas. At the time, Srivastava told Billboard that she found the popularity of “push button” AI music tools “disturbing,” adding that with whatever Splice does in the AI space she wants it to “make more people curious about creating as opposed to less.”
In late 2025, Splice announced a partnership with Universal Music Group to collaborate on developing “commercial AI tools” and “AI-powered virtual instruments,” and in January, Splice announced the acquisition of Kits AI, an AI-powered voice platform.
Separately, ElevenLabs has been building its own approach to AI in the music-making process. The AI voice company began forming licensing partnerships with music companies starting in 2025 with the announcement of deals with Kobalt, Merlin and production library SourceAudio. Since then, ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic, its AI music platform allowing the creation of songs from simple text prompts.
In a statement about the new collaboration with Splice, ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski says: “Our models deliver studio-grade audio ready for commercial use. By embedding them into Splice’s workflow, we’ll bring these capabilities directly to the artists and creators shaping the future of music.”
