Universal Music Group announced a first-of-its-kind AI licensing deal with KLAY Vision in November 2025, providing UMG's recorded music and publishing catalog as licensed training data for KLAY's AI music platform.

In November 2025, UMG, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group, signed licensing agreements with AI music technology company KLAY Vision. The deals position licensed training — where AI companies pay to use label catalog to train their models — as a commercial standard. Exact terms were not publicly disclosed. This represents UMG licensing its catalog as training data rather than deploying AI itself.