V8.1 Alpha

Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1 

What’s new in V8.1?

• V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love.
• HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1
• Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating *fast*. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.

We’ve also brought back some community favorite features

• Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
• New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
• Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8

Please Note: Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way. 

It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know in #ideas-and-features

What’s next? We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.

Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community ❤️