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Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!

Rundown of the new features and improvements in MJ V6.

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Daniel Nest
Dec 28, 2023
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Last week, taking a page from Santa’s playbook, Midjourney sneakily gifted us Version 6, the next iteration of its text-to-image model.

Midjourney V6 is in alpha release for now, so the model will continue to evolve over the coming weeks. Still, I want to touch on the main upgrades V6 brings to the table.

So for this last post of 2023, let’s take a peek at MJ V6 and what it can do.

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What’s Midjourney V6?

Midjourney regularly releases new versions of the model, which include improvements to image quality and often entirely new features.

Let’s revisit and update our chronology from the Version 5 post:

  • Version 1: March 2022

  • Version 2: April 2022

  • Version 3: July 2022

  • Version 4: November 2022

  • Version 5: March 2023

    • 5.1: May 2023

    • 5.2: June 2023

  • Version 6 (alpha): December 2023

Even if we count the…

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