Midjourney's Next Big Steps: V6, Speed, and Apps

Midjourney recently held its Aug 2nd office hours, sharing updates on big upcoming features. Here's a quick rundown of what's planned for Version 6, server speeds, and platform access.

Version 6 is Taking More Time

The Midjourney team has a candidate for Version 6 ready. It's better than Version 5, but they want to make it much better before releasing it. Releasing new versions takes a lot of work and testing, which puts stress on the team.

They mentioned V6 could come out faster, maybe in a week, but it would only be around 50% better. They decided to push it farther to create a bigger difference.

What V6 Aims To Do

The goal for the next version is for it to respond better to your text prompts. The current version they have makes images that make more sense and shows more different looks. It also knows more things. However, it can still be a little hard to work with, similar to version 5.

The team has promising ideas to fix this usability issue. That is what they plan to work on now. This work means the timeline for V6 has changed.

New Timeline Ideas

Originally, they hoped for Version 5.3 with inpainting in a couple of weeks, followed by Version 6 shortly after that. Now, the timeline for V6 seems pushed back further. This is not what they wanted, but they are trusting their judgment on what's best.

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Faster Servers and Pricing Ideas

Midjourney is also working to improve their data centers. They think their image-making models could run much faster. Users have different experiences with speed; for some, it's fast enough, but others want more speed.

The equipment that makes these faster speeds possible is not widely available yet. Midjourney could make image making faster, but they don't have enough equipment for everyone at once. This brings up questions about how to offer faster speeds.

Speed and Membership Tiers

They are thinking about letting higher membership tiers get access to the new faster equipment first. One idea is making a turbo mode free for the Pro plan and higher. However, they are figuring out the best way to do this.

In the future, they might change how the pricing plans work. Not to make things cost more, but to change access to different levels of computing power. For example, if they had a few computers that were 100 times faster, how would they use them? They couldn't use them for the lowest speed mode or give them equally to all fast users. They consider linking it to a turbo mode where you might pay for speed, but users have found that hard to use.

[P]The main issue is they don't have enough fast computers for everyone to do everything quickly right now. Since fewer people use the Pro and Mega tiers, they might be able to give those tiers some form of turbo speed free in the next month, perhaps two times faster instead of just four. The majority of images are made by users on the $10 and $30 plans, so they lack the computers to speed it up for everyone.[/H]

They even have a faster turbo mode they haven't used much yet, roughly eight times faster. That shows the potential future of speed.

Other Pricing Concepts

Midjourney might face limits on computing power over the next six months. They thought about having something for lower tiers, like a month of free turbo mode, which they liked as an idea.

Another idea was a mode that makes half the images at the same price but faster. They think this might be too confusing and suggests they might need to change more about how plans are named and work.

One suggestion was simpler plan names, like a "Normal Mode" ($10-$15) and a "Speed Mode" ($30 or $60). This would tell new users clearly what they are paying for in terms of how quickly images are made, not just computer time.

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Standalone Website and Mobile Apps

Work on the standalone website is moving forward well. Key questions are how much community features to include when it launches and how the front page will look. They are considering launching it to a small group first before releasing it widely.

They are also testing mobile apps. It looks likely they will have a native app for Apple devices and a non-native app for Android devices. This means the experience might be slightly smoother on Apple, while still being good on Android.

A Quick Fun Fact

About 80% of Midjourney users are men, according to a recent check.

These were the main points from the Midjourney Office Hours summary. Big changes are planned for the platform, from image quality and speed to how you access it through websites and apps.

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