Audioshake is a unique AI company: It has a real business in an unexpected place.

I knew Jessica Powell was smart, talented and super well connected from her days at Google. But no matter how many times she tried to explain Audioshake, her new AI company, to me, I didn't get it. Audio stems? Who wants those except karaoke lovers? Some early VCs said that too. But the music and entertainment industries - typically the last people to embrace new tech - are in love with Audioshake. Stem splitting for sync licensing creates an entirely new way for them to make money from their otherwise dormant libraries. And AI enables it to happen in seconds instead of days, as with earlier tech. Now the AI companies want what Audioshake has got. “If this whole AGI thing is going to happen, machines need to be able to see. But they also need to be able to hear,” Powell told me. That's the latest from Crazy Stupid Tech.

https://crazystupidtech.com/2026/04/06/behold-an-ai-startup-with-a-real-business/