Quick Midjourney Update: 6 key highlights to know (29th November 2023)
Keeping up with the rapid changes and developments
Here’s a quick rundown of the most recent Midjourney Weekly Office Hours:
(1) Upcoming releases
- Midjourney V6 is still scheduled for release in mid-December.
- New website features: The release date is delayed. Some features will most likely be available by next week.
(2) Midjourney Website
- The Collection and Downloader features will be available next week.
- The image creation feature is currently being stress-tested. It will be released first to users who have already generated 10,000 images if it passes.
- According to David, the website features (collection, downloader, and image creation) are expected to be available by mid-December.
- Another feature under consideration is the filter function on the front page, which displays images that users are interested in, such as landscape images, Nijis, etc.
(3) Midjourney V6
- The V6 will be more coherent, with improved aesthetics and knowledge, as well as text drawing capability and a new upscaler.
- The developers are considering a batch size mode where users can specify the number of images generated per grid, such as 8x8 grid, 2x2 grid, etc.
- The resolution of more images per grid will be lower (512 pixels) for large batch sizes.
- A larger batch size allows the bot to show the users more artistic styles per job.
- The new upscaler will be tested until the following Monday.
- Some features that were not included in V6 will be included in V7.
- Depending on what the users are doing, V6 can be slower.
- Following the release of V6, there will be a rating party.
(4) Midjourney V7
- The V7 may include a video feature that’s “good enough.”
- David defines “good enough” as “most things you made with it will look good, and you are happy with it.”
- Because 3D requires more training data, the video feature will come first.
- The video feature will have limitations, but those limitations are unknown. How many seconds of video it will produce per input is also unclear.
(5) Future Outlook
- Following the release of V6, the focus will be on character and style consistency.
- A new Style Tuner is in the works. New style codes that are consistent across prompts and a Tuner that provides instant feedback will most likely be released in Q1 2024. It should be quick and straightforward to use.
- The new Style Tuner may not have 128 Style Directions initially, but more style directions will be added later.
- Because the team has grown 4 to 5 times in size, things are expected to move faster in 2024. The priority for 2023 is growing the team.
(6) Other updates
(6.1) Free trial of Midjourney for Discord Nitro Members
Do you have a friend who is a Discord Nitro member and wants to try out Midjourney?
According to Dataconomy.com, Discord Nitro members can get a one-month free trial of Midjourney’s Basic Plan worth $10 (equivalent to 3.3 Fast hours) from November 27, 2023 to December 27, 2023. Check out their website for more information.
(6.2) Prompt ideas
Why Try AI? offered some subjectless prompt ideas. I like the key phrases like “color field painting” and “opt art.” Please take a look at what he has in store here. Here are the prompts after some minor adaptations.
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