Article reprinted from: Kyle

Image source: Generated by Unbounded AI

Midjourney V6 is finally coming? According to today's rumors, Midjourney V6 will be officially released next week.

Midjourney has just launched a V6 rating party event, inviting member players to participate in rating the pictures generated by Mid V6, so as to help developers further improve the V6 version. Before the launch of the V5 version, the official held the same event.

According to the rules, rating participants will see two pictures each time and need to choose the one they think is better. However, these images do not represent the final effect of V6, but help to understand the preferences of community users. These images are more coherent than the V5 version, but most of the improvements in V6 are related to prompt word understanding, world knowledge, image prompts, text rendering, etc.

There are too many competitors. Can Midjourney V6 make people shine again?

There are so many AI image processing products on the market. There are not only thousands of AI image processing gadgets, but also giants such as Meta, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI competing for market share. Meta just launched the Image with Meta AI image tool last week, and Google has just completed the upgrade of its most powerful image processing model Imagen and launched Imagen 2. OpenAI has built the latest DALL-E 3 into GPT-4. And competitor Stability AI continues to launch new products.

It has been several months since Midjourney launched its last major new product, and users are eagerly awaiting the release of V6, or they may turn to other products. Faced with multiple competitors, Midjourney V6 is now urgent.

The Midjourney V6 Rating Party is undoubtedly a prelude to the official launch of V6. Let's first follow the community users to see how V6's image effects are. Users who participated in the rating picked out the pictures they thought were better and shared the prompts for these pictures. Let's enjoy them next.

Real-life pictures of the city? For example:

20 year old man with medium length brown hair, wearing an aqua colored hoodie and tan pants, running down a city street at night

20 year old man with medium length brown hair wearing aqua hoodie and tan pants running on city street at night

Realistic life can also be handled:

a bunch of old tulips in a black vase

Large natural scenery films are generated directly. Do you think they can be published in American National Geographic magazine?

forested hills with lavender flowers lush grass and mountains in the distance at sunrise forested hills with lavender flowers lush grass and mountains in the distance at sunrise

Dark sewers can also show:

Homeless tents in sewer, dark

Like mecha? I can give you a production blueprint directly:

factory blueprint of an armor core mech with fine and structural breakdowns and close-ups of critical parts.

Don't have a camera? Directly help you generate images shot with a specific type of film:

On a vast and mysterious plateau, towering ancient trees stand tall and solemn under the smoky sky

denali national park alaska, photograph, shot on Kodachrome

The most important thing for AI to generate natural landscape images is authenticity. The ability to generate "realistic" images is the key capability of the image-generated text model.

If Midjourney V6 is indeed released next week, it will surely spark a wave of new discussions and experiences in the community. There is no doubt that various comparisons of V6 with other AI products will soon appear. We will wait and see.

Midjourney web version is coming

Midjourney has always provided services to users based on Discord, which is often reported by many users as inconvenient. According to the latest news, Midjourney confirmed in its Discord announcement channel that it has "started testing the alpha version of the site, which includes image creation", but the company pointed out that the alpha version is limited to "people who have made more than 10,000 images in Midjourney."

However, Midjourney said it will make the web version of the experience available to more people next month.