[Midjourney Latest News] January 7th Office Hours Summary
[Midjourney Latest News] January 7th Office Hours Summary
Hello!
Here is a summary of the Midjourney "Office Hours" held on January 7th.
First of all, since this is our first session of the new year, Happy New Year. We look forward to working with you again this year.
🛠 Major projects currently underway
We are mainly working on the following two points:
・Development of the V8 (Version 8) model
・Redesign of the entire image generation and production workflow
⇒ David himself does not know which one will be released first.
📱 Direction of the new UI and workflow redesign
・The new user interface aims to improve the mobile experience.
・The goal is to make operations "simpler yet more powerful."
・Realizing this is not easy and will be a major change.
・The user experience of Midjourney will be quite different from what it has been until now.
・However, David believes it will lead to good results in the long term.
🧠 V8 progress status
・V8 training is currently about 50% complete.
・There is both good news and bad news.
⚠️ Bad news: Conservative model design
・V8 is being trained with a fairly conservative configuration in terms of both "model size" and "dataset used."
・It is not a large-scale or aggressive configuration.
🚀 Good news: Architectural breakthrough
・There has been a significant structural evolution.
・Expected improvements as a result:
⇒ Significant improvement in prompt understanding ability
⇒ Improved quality of text rendering (text generation)
・V8 is expected to be a more powerful and flexible model.
🔧 V8 initial release policy
・The first version of V8 will not unleash the full performance of the model.
・David himself is very excited about the potential, but expects a phased rollout.
📅 V8 release timing
・If everything goes well, there is a possibility it will be released within this month.
・However, "completion of training" and "subsequent optimization" are required.
🧩 V8 Mini / V8 Mega concept
・We are considering a plan to divide models by "size" or "potential performance."
・For example, something like "V8 Mini" or "V8 Mega."
・The final naming is undecided.
・It may not follow the simple "V8 / 8.1 / 8.2" format.
🧰 Uncertainties regarding the large-scale editing model
・There is a concept for an editing-specialized model that automatically organizes assets (image materials) when uploaded.
・It is technically feasible.
・However, it is not yet determined whether it will be "naturally included in the next-generation model" or "need to be trained specifically."
🖥 Compute resource constraints
・The new model may face a slight shortage of compute resources.
・In the cloud industry, there is a common problem where even if you contract for servers, you cannot actually use them sufficiently.
💤 Regarding the provision of Relax mode
・There is a possibility that "Relax mode" will not be available at the initial V8 release.
・The reason is simple: there is physically not enough compute resource.
🌈 Possibility of Niji (NG7) model
・There is a possibility that the Niji 7 (NG7) model will be released within 1-2 weeks.
・However, David himself does not know the details and has not even tried it.
・He stated, "I actually don't think we should release it" (the reason is below).
🤔 Confusion and speculation regarding Niji 7
・It is unclear why he is passive about it.
・A possible reason is that it might "consume resources from other teams."
・Even so, user expectations are very high.
That concludes the summary of the Midjourney Office Hours.