Midjourney has announced the alpha release of its V7 image generation model for testing by the AI community. The new model packs improvements in text prompt understanding, image quality, and feature coherence.
“V7 is an amazing model. It’s much smarter with text prompts, image 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,” Midjourney explained.
A key innovation in V7 is the default activation of model personalisation. Users must initially unlock this feature, a process that takes approximately five minutes. This personalisation can be toggled on or off at any time and is intended to significantly improve the AI’s ability to interpret user desires and aesthetic preferences. Midjourney believes this feature sets a new benchmark for understanding user intent.
Midjourney is also introducing a feature alongside the V7 image generation model called ‘Draft Mode,’ which promises to generate images ten times faster and at half the cost.
This increased speed has enabled Midjourney to implement a unique “conversational mode” on its web interface. Users can now instruct the system to make changes, such as replacing a cat with an owl or altering the time of day to nighttime, and the AI will automatically adjust the prompt and initiate a new image generation task.
Draft Mode also incorporates voice input functionality. By pressing the microphone button, users can verbally articulate their ideas and observe the images as they are generated in near real-time:
