Midjourney has become a word synonymous with AI images. It was one of the first high profile generative artificial intelligence models with output going viral on social media.
Founded in Founded early in 2022 by serial entrepreneur David Holz, it began life with a call on Twitter and Reddit for high quality photographs to use in training the new model.
Since its inception it has remained steadfastly integrated into Discord, requiring will-be creators to use a bot within that communications platform to generate an image. It was only in December last year that Midjourney began to roll out limited access to a web interface for making images.
Now on the sixth version of its image generation model, Midjourney’s developers are working on 3D and video modes as part of an overall plan to build an immersive virtual environment.
Midjourney is one of the most widely used and dominant artificial intelligence image generators on the market. It has unsurpassed realism and is able to create compelling product images.
As of version six of its underlying model Midjourney gained the ability to render legible text on to the images it creates. This opened up new avenues for marketing and advertising.
Unlike many other AI tools, focused on building market share and technology over a profitable business, Holtz said the company was already profitable by August 2022.
Midjourney has also remained loyal to Discord, operating through a messaging bot where you use /imagine to begin a prompt and append the prompt with –[code], rather than using a web interface where settings can be controlled through buttons and toggles.
It works like every other AI image generator; you give it a description of what you want to see using natural language, and it goes away and makes it, often getting closer than other models.
You can see how to do that in our guide to Midjourney. Once you’ve paid your monthly subscription you will be able to access the Midjourney direct messaging bot.
To begin just type /imagine then your text. If you want to set the orientation use –ar 16:9 (or any other ratio) and if you want to use the manga model type add –niji.
Midjourney’s founder has big plans for the platform. Other than rolling out the web interface to more users and bringing it more in line with other AI image generators like Leonardo or NightCafe, Holtz also wants to create the holodeck from Star Trek — sort of.
His plan is to bring together AI image, video, 3D and real-time generation models to create fully immersive virtual environments from a text prompt.
These environments could then be used to build a game, probably using more AI prompts, or to create an AI-powered movie where the environment acts like a stage.
Source: TomsGuide
