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Every GWEN model release and Kivio product update. Newest first.

Kivio Studio
Jul 2026 · live

Make a song, for real

  • GWEN is live. The Studio now generates real songs on demand: type an idea, pick a genre and voice, and GWEN writes and sings it.
  • Your library. Every song you make is saved to your Library, ready to play again or download.
  • It learns from you. Rate a song and GWEN tunes the next one toward what listeners actually love, per genre.
GWEN v1.3
Jul 2026

Nearly 2× the training data

  • Vocal recovery. Re-transcribed a large slice of the catalog with Whisper large-v3, recovering many real vocals the old pipeline had missed.
  • Broader coverage. More Yoruba, Pidgin and English-Pidgin vocals folded in.
  • Cleaner pipeline. Fixed a silent data-loss bug that had been dropping tracks during prep.
GWEN v1.2
Jul 2026

XL base, standalone model

  • ACE-Step XL. Moved to the 4B XL base for a higher audio ceiling.
  • Standalone. Merged the adapter into the base so GWEN ships as one self-contained model.
  • Bigger set. Trained on the unified catalog across every source bucket.
GWEN v1.1
Jul 2026

Vocals that actually sing

  • Vocal-forward captions. Rich, descriptive prompts so GWEN sings the lead instead of defaulting to instrumental.
  • Sharper mixes. First pass at a mastering chain for radio-loudness output.
  • More genres. Amapiano, gospel and highlife added to the core set.
GWEN v1.0
Jul 2026

First African vocal model

  • The foundation. Fine-tuned ACE-Step on a consented African catalog.
  • Nine genres. Afrobeats, Amapiano, Afro-house, Alté, street-pop, Afro-swing, gospel, highlife, Naija rap.
  • Catalog-sourced. Built only on music we own or licensed.
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What we are building

  • Better decoder. A new anti-aliased audio decoder to lift raw fidelity past the current ceiling.
  • African voices. A voice library so you can pick the singer, built from consented artists.
  • Afrobeats genre model. A dedicated Naija-afrobeats fine-tune for an even tighter, more authentic pocket.