NPR Tiny Desk Concerts gets new sponsor Moises, the AI app with 60 million users

Key Highlights:

• Moises, with 60 million users, is sponsoring NPR’s Tiny Desk series in 2025
• The partnership connects AI music tools with authentic performance showcase
• Several Tiny Desk performers already use Moises for practice and creativity

Moises, the AI music platform that serves 60 million users around the world, just announced it’s sponsoring NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series in 2025. The Salt Lake City company will back the intimate performance format that’s featured everyone from up-and-coming artists to Grammy winners since it started in 2008.

This partnership brings together Moises’ AI tools with Tiny Desk’s reputation for showing musicians at their most genuine.

“Many of the key founders of Moises are musicians, which is why we feel such kinship with Tiny Desk,” said Geraldo Ramos, CEO and co-founder of Moises. The platform already has several Tiny Desk performers as users, including Mohini Dey (performed with WILLOW on NPR), The Pocket Queen, and Filipe Coimbra. These artists use features like vocal separation and chord detection to practice and explore new creative ideas.

This partnership shows how AI music companies are working with established cultural institutions instead of trying to replace them. Moises, which Apple named its 2024 iPad App of the Year, processes 2.5 million minutes of audio daily using 45 different AI models.

The sponsorship suggests music tech companies understand they need to partner with trusted, artist-focused platforms to build credibility in an industry that’s still figuring out AI’s role in creativity.