Imagine Weekly – Issue 17 [September 28th]

Author

Daniel Reiser
September 27, 2024

Welcome to Issue 17 of Imagine Weekly 👋

Welcome back, everyone, to this week's issue of Imagine Weekly! It's been a whirlwind of a week with the incredible new srefs people are sharing. The quantity and quality are outstanding, so be sure to check out the sref section at the end.

But that's not all. The team at MidJourney is hard at work on v7, and it sounds like many exciting changes are on the horizon. Let's keep our fingers crossed that this update will surpass FLUX and Mystic! 😬

I hope you enjoy this issue.

In this issue you’ll find:

  • 🤩 Most Exciting Update

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

  • 🛠️ Tools to explore

  • 🎨 Some new srefs to tinker with

🤩 Most Exciting Update

As a software engineer myself, I can empathize with the challenges the team is facing while reworking all the moving parts of MidJourney. Although I am eagerly awaiting the update, I am most excited about the video model. Observing what other companies are achieving and considering the quality MidJourney consistently delivers, this combination promises to be extraordinary. For instance, the KlingAi Motion Brush is impressive (see the example below in the tool section). The team is also contemplating the 3D model as an extension of the video model, which sounds very promising.

To get to the point, enhancing the image model is certainly commendable, but video and 3D features are the most anticipated ones at the moment. It's hard to believe that V7 will represent such a significant leap forward compared to the current V6 or other models like FLUX and Mystic. However, we’ll see. Maybe they’ll surprise us.

📅 Office Hours TL;DR; Recap 2024-09-25

🗺️ Company Offsite: Team in San Francisco for hackathons, nature activities, and project discussions.

🧠 Model Training: V7 training faces challenges; optimism remains with individual component improvements.

🎥 Video Models: Weekly improvements; considering V6 pre-alpha release for data collection.

🖼️ 3D Models: Daily data collection; larger tests to begin soon.

🚀 Release Strategy: V7 takes longest; V8 to have smaller updates; focus on cohesive team and rhythmic cycles.

📊 Psychometrics: Positive survey data; upcoming reports and visual personality tests.

📚 Storytelling: Preparing demos; tools are experimental and evolving.

👤 Personalization: Website personalization launched; ongoing efforts to improve flow and user control.

🔧 Team Needs: Expanding hardware team; secret projects in the works.

🖌️ Editor Development: New image editor in development; features for higher-tier subscriptions.

🌐 Explore Page: Algorithm changes for diversity; further enhancements expected.

Get some inspiration an be amazed on what ai videos can look like these days…

🛠️ Tools

As mentioned above, KlingAis Motion Brush is insane:

And just a few minutes ago, Runway dropped their Gen-3 Alpha Turbo Model 🥳 

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

For today's issue, I've gathered some bold references for you to save and tinker with. I am still astonished by the variety of images MidJourney is capable of generating. The textures, atmospheres, and details are mind-blowing.

See you next week 👋🤖

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