# ACE-Step releases open-source music model

> Open-source music foundation model ACE-Step ships text-to-song generation tools.
- Title: ACE-Step releases open-source music model · RuntimeWire
- Summary: Open-source music foundation model ACE-Step ships text-to-song generation tools. ACE-Step, an open-source foundation model for music generation, turns text…
- Keywords: ace-step, open-source, music generation, foundation model, apache-2.0 license, text-to-music, technology, releases, music, model, RuntimeWire
- Source: RuntimeWire — https://runtimewire.com/article/reader-25-ace-step-ships-open-source-music-generation-foundation-model
- Author: RuntimeWire
- Published: 2026-10-26T12:24:47.524+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ace-step, open-source, music generation, foundation model, apache-2.0 license, text-to-music, technology, ai
## ACE-Step
ACE-Step, an open-source foundation model for music generation, is now available at https://ace-step.club/ .
## Text-to-song generation
The model turns a text prompt plus optional lyrics into complete songs of up to four minutes in seconds, and runs locally under the Apache-2.0 license.
## Musicians can fine-tune
It ships checkpoints, inference code and a LoRA training pipeline, so musicians and developers can fine-tune it and ship products on top.
## Key takeaway

ACE-Step, an open-source foundation model for music generation, turns text prompts into songs up to four minutes long and runs locally under Apache-2.0 license.