YuE2 runs a Suno-class music model on one 24GB GPU

The open 3B model writes editable ABC scores before it sings and edges Suno v5 on WildSongBench — part of a wave of local media models surging on Hugging Face.

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  • Full songs on a GPU you already own

    YuE2-3B turns lyrics plus a style prompt into complete stereo songs — vocals and accompaniment at 48kHz — running locally on a single 24GB NVIDIA card (7.3GB checkpoint, Linux + Python 3.10+). No credits, no cloud queue.

  • It drafts the score before the audio

    Instead of a black box, YuE2 first writes melody and chords in editable ABC notation — or you hand it your own score to sing. On WildSongBench (192 prompts) it scored 6.96 to Suno v5's 6.87.

  • Native in ComfyUI today

    Support landed natively in ComfyUI (PR #16250 merged to master), so you can drop music generation into a local pipeline and chain it with TTS or video nodes.

  • Elsewhere: open 4K video from Lightricks

    LTX-2.5 (22B, open weights) is trending alongside it — text-, image-, and video-to-video plus audio up to 4K HDR, with the distilled model rendering a 10s clip in ~6-8s on top NVIDIA chips. Pair the two for a fully local A/V stack.