Sonilo Launches Licensed AI Music Generator for Video on fal.ai

Sonilo's video-to-music model is now live on fal.ai, giving creators a way to quickly generate original, commercially licensed soundtracks from video footage

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonilo today announced that its video-to-music model is now available on fal.ai, enabling users to generate a custom, licensed soundtrack for video in seconds.

The launch makes Sonilo available through fal.ai's generative media infrastructure, expanding access to developers and creative teams building AI video products, editing tools, creator platforms and multimodal workflows.

Sonilo automates what has traditionally been one of video production's most time-consuming steps: finding, syncing and licensing music for commercial use. Instead of requiring users to search stock libraries or write text prompts, Sonilo analyzes a video's pacing, motion and emotional arc, then generates matching original music automatically. Each soundtrack is composed to match the video's exact duration, helping creators avoid manual editing, trimming, or looping.

Each generation produces multiple soundtrack options for the same footage, giving creators a range of emotional directions to choose from instantly. In internal tests, editors accepted the model's first attempt on 87% of clips. Videos scored with Sonilo showed a 16% increase in engagement, meaning audiences watched longer, interacted more and were more likely to share.

The generated music is delivered as a separate audio track, allowing editors to adjust its volume independently without affecting existing dialogue, voiceover or sound effects. Sonilo can also preserve original speech from source footage, making it easier to add music without compromising narration, interviews or spoken content. Through fal.ai, the model can score videos up to 600 seconds long. Sonilo's text-to-music model is also available on the platform for those who prefer to work from a prompt, including segment-level controls that let creators define different musical styles, moods and structures across sections of a track.

"AI video creation is moving faster than ever, but music is still often treated as something creators have to search for, edit around and license after the fact," said Shawn Song, CEO of Sonilo. "By launching on fal.ai, we are making it easier for developers and creative platforms to bring prompt-free, licensed soundtrack generation directly into their video workflows."

Every Sonilo model is trained on professionally licensed content, including Shutterstock's music catalog, with musicians compensated for their participation. Outputs generated by Sonilo are available for commercial use under the applicable deployment terms, giving video makers a clearer rights foundation for publishing and monetizing content.

The fal.ai launch follows Sonilo's integration with ComfyUI in April, as part of a broader effort to establish the company as the go-to music infrastructure layer for the next generation of AI creative tools, with further platform integrations planned.

Both models are available now on fal.ai, with API access for developers building at scale.

• Video-to-Music: fal.ai/models/sonilo/v1.1/video-to-music
• Text-to-Music: fal.ai/models/sonilo/v1.1/text-to-music

About Sonilo

Sonilo is the world's first professionally licensed video-to-music AI platform. Powered by its proprietary v1.1 model, it composes original music directly from footage or text in seconds. Sonilo is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by B Capital.

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About fal.ai

fal.ai is a generative media platform providing high-performance inference APIs across image, video, audio and 3D models. It serves more than 2.5 million developers and enterprises in industries ranging from gaming and e-commerce to creative production.

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Sonilo Launches Licensed AI Music Generator for Video on fal.ai

 Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal credits the founders of AGFUND's microfinance banks for laying the foundations of its development impact

BANGKOK, Oct. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) won the "Excellence in Inclusive Banking and Social Impact" award at the 2026 Sustainable Development Goals Awards, organized by the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) in cooperation with the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG).

AGFUND CEO Hammam bin Nasser bin Juraid accepted the award in Bangkok, Thailand, alongside the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.

HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, President of AGFUND, said the recognition acknowledges AGFUND's experience using financial services to empower underserved communities, strengthen livelihoods and promote economic independence.

He credited the founders of AGFUND's microfinance banks, particularly the late Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, for establishing institutions centered on empowering people.

He added that the award reflects over two decades of commitment, the dedication of financial inclusion banks and partners, and clients who transformed financing into businesses and family income. He emphasized expanding opportunities and measuring success through lasting improvements in people's lives.

Prince Abdulaziz stressed that the recognition reflects the value of institutions reaching excluded populations and encourages broader access and economic opportunities for families.

AGFUND's financial inclusion banking network has served more than 1.3 million clients and disbursed over US$1.37 billion in financing since inception. Women represent 59 per cent of borrowers, demonstrating its contribution to economic empowerment.

Presented by WSBI, established in 1924, together with ESBG, the award recognizes an approach linking financial services, social impact and sustainable development.

Following its first bank in Jordan in 2004, AGFUND expanded across nine countries: Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Mauritania and Sierra Leone, focusing on communities underserved by conventional financial institutions.

The network has issued more than 1.5 million loans, opened over 927,000 savings accounts, established 112 branches and employed more than 1,500 people. Its services finance micro and small enterprises and income-generating activities, improving livelihoods and economic independence.

AGFUND plans to strengthen development partnerships, advance digital solutions and innovative financial products, and integrate financing with training, capacity development, market access and risk protection.

It is also exploring geographic expansion, particularly in Africa, through institutional partnerships that adapt successful approaches to local needs and extend sustainable financial inclusion to more communities.

Website - https://agfund.org/

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AGFUND wins international award for excellence in inclusive banking and social impact