Imagine Weekly – Issue 15 [September 13th]

Author

Daniel Reiser
September 13, 2024

Welcome to Issue 15 of Imagine Weekly 👋

Time flies. Issue 15 is already out and it’s been a hell of a ride. Each week the AI worlds reinvents itself and it’s hard to keep track. But what am I telling you, that’s why you’re here, right? So focussing on MidJourney, this weeks office hours were nothing short of great things the team is working on. The personalization system still seems like priority #1. However they’ve also teases some new and upcoming features like a new image editor for external images and the expected release of V7. And of course as always many things more. The MidJourney team is really busy and hard at work 🥳 

In this issue you’ll find:

  • 🤩 Most Exciting Update

  • 📖 TL;DR; Weekly Recap of the Office Hours (or the extended recap)

  • 🎨 Some new srefs to tinker with

🤩 Most Exciting Update

Last week I’ve been really excited about the upcoming storytelling feature, this week (another new tool the’ve announced) it’s the editor for external images. What does this mean? Well you will be able to make edits on your own images. David (MidJourney) said, "It's magical." This will be huge. Can’t wait. But the progress on 3D is also really exiting. So you have to deal with two “most exciting” updates this week 😄 

📅 Office Hours TL;DR; Recap 2024-09-11

Personalization System 🎨: Enhancements and new "batch 8" mode.

Image Editor 🖼️: New mode with heavy moderation, non-saving sessions.

Video Model 🎥: Release before year-end, compatible with Niji styles.

3D Model 🌐: Convert images to 3D, 60 fps rendering.

Midjourney V7 🔄: Faster, better quality, improved language understanding.

Upcoming Features 🌟: Improved Explore Page, new storytelling tool.

Hardware Projects 💻: Multiple projects, announcements this year.

Research 📊: Demographic study, psychometric survey.

Hiring 👥: Active recruitment, focus on front-end web development.

Miscellaneous 📝: NSFW considerations, Niji personalization, folder improvements.

You can always count in Nick St. Pierre to release good stuff so get in there while it’s hot:

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

For today's issue, I've gathered some bold srefs for you to save and tinker with. Soon MidJourney will release bigger batches as mentioned in the office hours notes, which means testing those srefs gets easier cause you get 8 images per job instead of 4 🖼️.

See you next week 👋🤖

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