Midjourney releases its first new AI image model in nearly a year | TechCrunch

Midjourney, one of the earliest AI image-generating services on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year.

Dubbed V7, the model, which began rolling out in alpha around midnight Eastern on Friday, comes a week after OpenAI debuted a new image generator in ChatGPT that quickly went viral for its ability to create Ghibli-style photos. Midjourney’s is not a Ghibli-optimized model — at least not officially — but nonetheless generates aesthetically pleasing…