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Title: Midjourney Releases V7, Its First New AI Image Model In Nearly a Year

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/04/2258217/m...

Midjourney's new V7 image model features a revamped architecture with smarter
text prompt handling, higher image quality, and default personalization based
on user-rated images. While some features like upscaling aren't yet
available, it does come with a faster, cheaper Draft Mode. TechCrunch
reports: To use it, you'll first have to rate around 200 images to build a
Midjourney "personalization" profile, if you haven't already. This profile
tunes the model to your individual visual preferences; V7 is Midjourney's
first model to have personalization switched on by default. Once you've done
that, you'll be able to turn V7 on or off on Midjourney's website and, if
you're a member of Midjourney's Discord server, on its Discord chatbot. In
the web app, you can quickly select the model from the drop-down menu next to
the "Version" label. Midjourney CEO David Holz described V7 as a "totally
different architecture" in a post on X. "V7 is ... much smarter with text
prompts," Holz continued in an announcement on Discord. "[I]mage prompts look
fantastic, image quality is noticeably higher with beautiful textures, and
bodies, hands, and objects of all kinds have significantly better coherence
on all details." V7 is available in two flavors, Turbo (costlier to run) and
Relax, and powers a new tool called Draft Mode that renders images at 10x the
speed and half the cost of the standard mode. Draft images are of lower
quality than standard-mode images, but they can be enhanced and re-rendered
with a click. A number of standard Midjourney features aren't available yet
for V7, according to Holz, including image upscaling and retexturing. Those
will arrive in the near future, he said, possibly within two months. "This is
an entirely new model with unique strengths and probably a few weaknesses"
Holz wrote on Discord. "[W]e want to learn from you what it's good and bad
at, but definitely keep in mind it may require different styles of prompting.
So play around a bit."

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