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Midjourney Opens V8 Community Test with 5x Speed and 2K Resolution

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Midjourney is opening V8 to community testing. Generation speed is ~5x faster than V7, and the new --hd flag renders images natively at 2K resolution. Text in images works better when phrases are wrapped in "quotes." The --q 4 mode adds extra coherence. V8 is backward compatible with V7 personalization profiles, moodboards, and style references (sref). Relax mode is not yet available, and --hd, --q 4, SREF, and Moodboard jobs currently run 4x slower and cost 4x more.

This brings Midjourney's best personalization, sref, and moodboard performance yet into a significantly faster pipeline. The model follows detailed directions more closely and produces more coherent, detailed images than V7.

Try V8 on the Midjourney alpha site. Midjourney recommends using --raw for controlled styles, leaning on personalization profiles, and writing longer, more specific prompts to get the most from the new model.

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Today we're starting to test an early version of our V8 model with our community. It's much better at following prompts, 5x faster, has native 2K modes, improved text rendering and the best personalization, sref, and moodboard performance ever. Have fun! https://t.co/bc54Iod3nv

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