Midjourney just launched Year One, a hardcover coffee table book celebrating its past twelve months of community art and tech evolution. The book documents standout generations from V4, V5, and V6 alongside their prompts, feature milestones, and member profiles. It ships globally from Canada, though initial stock has already sold out.
Midjourney just slapped an indefinite ban on all Stability AI employees after bot-like scraping brought its service down for 24 hours. The rival was allegedly trying to harvest prompt-image pairs to train its own models. Now, Midjourney is enforcing a nuclear policy: crash our servers with aggressive automation, and your entire company gets banned.
Automattic is reportedly finalizing deals with OpenAI and Midjourney to feed user posts from Tumblr and WordPress.com into their AI models. An internal scrape reportedly scooped up a decade of posts, including some private content by mistake, prompting Automattic to promise a quick opt-out toggle. Why it matters: Platforms are desperate to cash in on user data, even at the cost of alienating the creative communities that built them.
Elon Musk's X is reportedly exploring a partnership with text-to-image generator Midjourney. If finalized, the deal could integrate Midjourney's visual capabilities directly into Grok, letting users generate and post images right from their feeds. While details remain sparse, the feature will likely be locked behind an X Premium subscription.
Midjourney just launched alpha testing for its dedicated image creation website, opening access to anyone who has generated more than 1,000 images. The team is focusing primarily on desktop before rolling out mobile support, with plans to expand access more broadly as the platform matures.
Midjourney just launched Niji V6, a new version of its latest model fine-tuned specifically for anime-style artwork. It brings vastly improved comprehension of intricate prompts, direct in-image text generation, and a Style Raw option, with inpainting and zoom tools slated to roll out in February.
Midjourney just shared a major roadmap update in its office hours, confirming that inpainting, pan, and zoom are returning to v6 as early as next week. Style consistency will arrive before character consistency, and the team is prioritizing video generation over 3D. Control and consistency are finally catching up to the raw fidelity of v6.
Midjourney CEO David Holz just announced that the team will start training video generation models in January. On top of that, Midjourney v6 is getting an update next week to improve text rendering and prompt following, while gradually restoring v5 staples like inpainting. The reigning king of image generation is finally moving into motion.
Lawmakers Anna Eshoo and Don Beyer just introduced the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act, requiring model creators to disclose their training data sources. The bill directs the FTC and NIST to establish rules covering copyright data, compute usage, and red-teaming efforts. Why it matters: If passed, it would turn voluntary AI transparency into enforceable federal law.
Midjourney just launched version 6 for public testing. It is not set as the default model yet, so users must manually select v6 in /settings or append --v6 to their prompts. Early users note that generation is running quite slowly right now.
Midjourney just launched an alpha version of its website allowing users to generate images directly on the web instead of typing complex Discord slash commands. The clean interface adds visual dials for settings like aspect ratios and keeps a full generation history. The catch? You need to have generated over 10,000 images to get access for now.
Midjourney just launched Style Tuner, a tool that lets creators generate reusable aesthetic profiles. Running the /tune command creates a personalized web page where you pick your favorite visual samples, which spits out a custom style code you can attach to any future prompt.
A federal judge just narrowed the landmark copyright lawsuit brought by visual artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. While dismissing claims that all AI outputs automatically constitute infringing derivative works, the court allowed direct infringement claims over model training against Stability AI to proceed. The artists will have a chance to amend their complaint.
Midjourney just launched its first official mobile app by teaming up with Sizigi Studios to release Niji Journey on iOS and Android. While primarily tailored for anime styles, users can toggle settings to generate standard Midjourney imagery as well. Existing subscribers can log in via Discord, finally getting an escape hatch from chat rooms.
A deep-dive analysis argues that generative AI and foundation models are breaking the historical mediocrity spiral of legacy software. Unlike older systems crippled by long-tail accuracy costs and human-in-the-loop overhead, consumer hits like ChatGPT and Character.AI are unlocking unprecedented organic adoption. Why it matters: Startups finally have the growth velocity and defensibility to challenge entrenched incumbents rather than ending up as bespoke IT services.
US lawmakers are finally drafting formal playbooks to police advanced AI, spanning mandatory audits, FDA-style licensing, and chip-level compute tracking. The push targets everything from copyright and bias to rogue models and bioweapons. Why it matters: The wild west of runaway frontier model deployment is about to face Washington red tape.
A US federal judge just signaled he is inclined to toss most claims in an artist-led copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. Judge William Orrick ruled that the artists failed to show substantial similarity between their works and AI outputs, though he gave them a chance to file a revised complaint with stronger evidence.
Llion Jones, the last remaining author of the groundbreaking 2017 Transformer paper 'Attention is All You Need', just confirmed he is leaving Google to start his own company. All eight researchers behind the architecture powering ChatGPT and Midjourney have departed, launching startups like Cohere and Character.ai now valued at over $4.1 billion combined.
Midjourney just rolled out version 5.2, introducing a camera-like "zoom out" feature that builds out wider scenes while keeping the original subject intact. The update also brings a revamped aesthetic system and a handy "/shorten" command to trim bloated prompts. The catch: you can't upload custom images to expand yet—it only works on Midjourney's own generations.
Google just introduced new features to help users identify AI-generated images, led by a tool called "About this image." It lets you see when an image was first indexed, where it first appeared, and where else it has shown up. Google is also embedding metadata labels into AI-generated files, with Midjourney and Shutterstock on board.
