The Beatles’ final song, restored using AI, is up for a Grammy

The Beatles person been nominated for 2 Grammys — astir 50 years aft the set officially divided up. Their last song, called “Now and Then,” was restored past twelvemonth with the assistance of AI, and is present up for grounds of the twelvemonth alongside the likes of Beyoncé, Charlie XCX, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift. It’s besides been nominated for champion stone performance, wherever it goes up against Green Day, Pearl Jam, and The Black Keys.

However, “Now and Then” was ne'er released, arsenic exertion astatine the clip couldn’t abstracted John’s vocals and soft to get a wide sound. But successful 2021, filmmaker Peter Jackson and his dependable squad were capable to abstracted the instrumentals and vocals with instrumentality learning technology, allowing Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to yet implicit the song.

Though “Now and Then” was finished utilizing instrumentality learning, it inactive falls wrong the bounds of The Grammy’s rules surrounding AI. The guidelines presently authorities that “only quality creators are eligible to beryllium submitted for information for, nominated for, oregon triumph a GRAMMY Award,” but enactment that contains “elements” of AI worldly is “eligible successful applicable categories.”

It’s a spot unusual to spot “Now and Then” competing with modern-day euphony similar Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” but it’s been a agelong clip coming. We’ll get to spot however the Beatles fare during the 2025 Grammy Awards, which takes spot connected Sunday, February 2nd.