Vali Neagu@AmbsdOP

👋, I'm Vali and I do

Open source& AI music

  • ACE-Step UI4.7k★
  • InstantArt1M users
  • MiniMax 33.2× on 3060
  • OpenFelixlocal Mac agent
Vali Neagu
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Open source · AI music

ACE-Step UI

4.7k stars, 15k people using it, a million in reach. The open-source studio.

Open the story

Shipped, not slides

Everything here is running right now

Two open-source music studios, a Mac app on the App Store, a news comparison site, two marketplaces and a London web studio. Each one has a URL you can open and a repo or a store listing behind it.

Flip through, or read the whole list below.

01 — Work

Selected work

Open-source music tools first. Then the products, the failure, and the studio. Public proof only.

02 — Why this

Closed music AI rents you your own output.

Email from Suno announcing that Pro plans are capped at 20 song downloads a month
01

Suno charges a subscription, burns credits, then caps downloads. Google dropped Lyria 3 with no paper, no weights, no API. Closed labs get absorbed. The pattern is not subtle.

ACE-Step UI, the open-source studio, generating a track
02

ACE-Step, HeartMuLa, MiniMax Music 3 — the weights are out. What was missing was software a musician can actually run: a studio UI, memory that fits a 3060, one-click install. That is the work I publish.

LocalMusic AI generating on-device on a Mac
03

Local inference is the product. If it only works on a cluster, it is a demo. If it runs on one card you already own, it is infrastructure. I want the second thing in every bedroom studio.

03 — Now

What I am on.

Local music inference

MiniMax Music 3 on a single 3060. More of this — smaller VRAM, faster RTF, same quality.

Open-source studios

ACE-Step UI and HeartMuLa Studio. Features the community files issues for. Pinokio, Docker, Windows one-click.

OpenFelix

The Mac agent. Voice, vision, cron, skills. Named after the cat. Shipping in public.

The studio

Web Design Studio London. Next.js for businesses that need to rank and convert, not collect Dribbble shots.

Open to

  • Local inference, music, agents. I take the product and the infra, not only the model wrapper.

  • What actually runs on a consumer card, what the open community adopts, what is worth open-sourcing.

  • Weights in the open, software a musician can run, no credit meter. I have the tools and the audience.

  • Short cycles, public releases, real users. London or remote.

4.7kGitHub stars on ACE-Step UI
1Musers on InstantArt — then I shut it down
3.2×faster MiniMax Music 3 on one RTX 3060
1consumer GPU. Full 11B stack. ~9GB VRAM.

04 — About

I shipped InstantArt to a million users and shut it down. Then I went into open-source AI music and stayed there — because the closed stack is a rent-seek, and the open stack still needs someone to make it usable.

I also run a London web studio, a microjob marketplace, and a VA marketplace. Engineering, product, support, ads. If you want someone who has only written model wrappers, I am the wrong hire.

I live in London. I post the work on X as I do it. The cat is real. The llama looks left and right because I built that too.

Operator, not a slide.

London

05 — Contact

If the work is the pitch, start here.

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