Midjourney Latest News (August 28, 2025)
Hello. This is Akisuke.
Today, for the first time in two weeks, development progress was announced during Midjourney office hours, so I have written about that.
A partnership with Meta was casually announced. It seems some people had been talking about it for a while, but today might be the first official announcement.
I'm quite surprised lol
Midjourney Latest Information (August 28, 2025)
### Summary of this week
V7.1 releasing next month: Draft mode and prompt understanding improved
V8 is 20-30% complete: Even higher performance with new servers
Partnership with Meta: Providing aesthetic technology (not an acquisition)
Maintaining privacy protection: User data remains protected as before
The "aesthetic technology" mentioned in 3 seems to be something likeknow-how for teaching AI 'how to draw beautiful pictures'.
### Detailed summary version
New feature: Style Explorer
Under development (scheduled for completion in 1-2 weeks)
Bug fixes for the mobile version are underway
Version 7.1 Development Status
Targeting release next month
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Key improvements:
Improved draft mode performance
Enhanced prompt understanding accuracy
Increased consistency
Integration of new O-Ref (Object Reference) feature
Addition of high-performance mode options
Version 8 Progress Status
20-30% of the development cycle completed
Confirmed improvements in specific areas during initial testing
Planning a large-scale server infrastructure migration for V8
Adopting entirely different server types for performance improvements
Expecting further speed increases after final configuration is determined
Video Feature Update
Continuing experiments with cost optimization
Successfully completed recent server migration
Developing for more efficient processing
Partnership with Meta
Signed a licensing agreement for future Meta visual products
The goal is to bring Midjourney's aesthetic quality to Meta's image/video AI
Not an acquisition or investment, but a standard business transaction
Resources from the partnership will support next-generation training
Meta products will have Midjourney's aesthetic but will be deployed as separate products
Privacy and data protection through the partnership with Meta
Private content remains protected as before (not shared with Meta)
Public prompts on the website will continue to be public without changes
Based on legal requirements, no personally identifiable information will be shared
Stealth mode content remains protected as before
A standard business agreement without special privileges
Impact on users from the partnership with Meta
AI image quality for Meta products (Instagram, Facebook, etc.) will improve
Your own private work remains fully protected as before
The creative process will be even smoother in V7.1
So, that is all for this week's content.
The partnership with Meta was indeed a surprise. There had been talk of considering partnerships for a while, but I didn't expect the partner to be a Big Tech company.
I don't know exactly what kind of changes will occur yet, but I hope it becomes easier to post images generated with Midjourney to Instagram and Threads.
See you later.