Midjourney, one of the earliest image generating services on the Internet, has released the first new image model he in nearly a year.
Called V7, the model, who began rolling in Alpha around Midnight on Thursday, comes a week after Openai debuted a new Chatgt image generator who quickly went viral for his ability to create Gofibli -style photos. Midjourney’s is not an optimized ghibli model-at least unofficially-but still generates aesthetically pleasant works, at least for the eye of this reporter’s reporter.
To use it, you will first need to evaluate about 200 images to build a Midjourney “personalization” profile if you haven’t already. This profile allocates the model to your individual visual preferences; V7 is the first of Midjourney that personalization lit as default.
Once you have completed that task, you will greet with a variable V7 on the Midjourney website and, if you are a member of the Midjourney Discord server, in its Discord Chatbot. In the online app, you can quickly select the model from the drop-down menu next to the “version” label.
Midjourney Director General David Holz described V7 as a “completely different architecture” in a post on X.
“V7 is (…) much smarter with text instructions,” continued Holz in a discord notice. “(I) Mage products look fantastic, the quality of the figure is significantly higher with beautiful textures, and the bodies, hands and objects of all kinds have a significantly better coherence in all details.”
V7 is available in two flavors, turbo and relaxation – the first of which is more expensive to execute – and strengthens a new tool called Draft Mode that makes 10x speed images and half the standard mode cost. Design images are of lower quality than standard mode images, but can be improved and re-enjoined with a mouse click.
We are now starting the alpha test stage of our new V7 image model. It is our smartest, most beautiful, more coherent model yet. Give a stroke and expect updates each week or two for the next two months. Pic.twitter.com/ogqt0fgiy7
– Midjourney (@Midjoyurney) 4 April 2025
A number of Midjourney skills are not yet available for V7, according to Holz, including image reproduction and image restoration. They will reach the near future, he said – maybe as soon as possible within two months.
“This is a completely new model with unique strength and maybe some weaknesses,” Holz wrote in the discord. “(W) I want to learn from you what is good and bad, but definitely keep in mind that it can require different stirring styles. So play a little.”
In my short test, V7 reasonably addressed the announcements I gave it. Given, I had no time to truly Place the pattern through the bell.
Midjourney is an unusual operation. Started in 2022 by Holz, who co-founded PC Company Company Leap Motion, it has not received a currency of external money.
At the end of 2023, Midjourney is said to be waiting to bring about $ 200 million in revenue. Recently, San Francisco -based firm said she was creating a hardware team to work on undiscovered projects, and she continues to train previously announced models for video and generation of 3D facility.
Some lawsuits accuse Midjourney of violating the rights of millions of artists by training him in images written by the web without the consent of the creators of the images.
