Gemini can now generate AI music with Lyria 3

If Nano Banana turned you into a prompt addict, congrats — Gemini now lets you do the same thing with music.

Google just added music generation to the Gemini with Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3 model, rolling out in beta on desktop first with mobile following over the next few days. You type a prompt or upload a photo or video, and Gemini produces a 30 second track with optional AI lyrics and cover art generated by Nano Banana, designed to be shared as a link or download, with paid tiers getting higher limits.

This is not positioned as a studio tool. It is closer to a make it and send it feature for everyday moments, like turning a birthday message into a quick chorus, giving a short travel clip a matching vibe, or making a silly theme song for a group chat. It is still in beta, so a few odd outputs are part of the deal. If you go in expecting polish, you will be disappointed, but speed and personality can surprise you.

The easiest way to get a good result is to keep your prompt simple and specific. Pick a genre, name the emotion, and add one detail that only you would say, like a place, a memory, or even an inside joke. If the first output disappoints you, just change one thing at a time, such as making it faster or changing the vocals, and you might land on something usable within a couple of tries.

It's good that tracks made in Gemini are embedded with SynthID, Google’s watermark. Which helps to check an uploaded audio file for that watermark to tell you whether it was generated using Google AI. Google says Lyria 3 is built for original expression rather than direct artist mimicry, and that naming a musician is treated as broad inspiration while filters exist to prevent lifting existing content.

Right now most of the AI music is split into two kinds. Gemini is generating brand new audio, while Apple Music’s Playlist Playground and Spotify’s Prompted Playlist focus on generating playlists from your prompts using existing songs. YouTube sits in the middle, with Lyria 3 also feeding Dream Track for Shorts creators, and YouTube Music is rolling out an AI playlist generator for Premium users. 

It’s still early, but it is clearly not a side experiment anymore, every major platform is building AI into music in a way that’s meant to be used daily.