Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year

AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed V7, it's a ground-up rework that is available in alpha to users now. There are two areas of improvement in V7: the first is better images, and the second is new tools and workflows. Starting with the image improvements, V7 promises much higher coherence and consistency for hands, fingers, body parts, and "objects of all kinds." It also offers much more detailed and realistic textures and materials, like skin wrinkles or the subtleties of a ceramic pot. Those details are often among the most obvious telltale signs that an image has been AI-generated. To be clear, Midjourney isn't claiming to have made advancements that make AI images unrecognizable to a trained eye; it's just saying that some of the messiness we're accustomed to has been cleaned up to a significant degree. Credit: Xeophon V7 can reproduce materials and lighting situations that V6.1 usually couldn't. On the features side, the ... Read full article.