Midjourney News
Midjourney Acquires Co-Star
July 24, 2026
Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. Co-Star CEO Banu Guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney, building a cross-functional design, product, and frontend team across all of Midjourney's efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banu's complete control.
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V8.2 Is the New Default Model
July 24, 2026
Midjourney is releasing V8.2 and making it the default model. The release focuses on aesthetics, personalization, and image quality. The new style is more creative, bold, edgy, and fresh, and personalization works better than ever.
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V8.2 Preview & Faster Draft Mode
June 25, 2026
Two image updates: add --preview to your prompt for an early peek at V8.2 aesthetics and personalization, and big-batch draft mode now works with --sref random to explore style space 24x faster.
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Introducing Midjourney Medical
June 21, 2026
Midjourney announced a new division called "Midjourney Medical".
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Big-Batch Draft Mode in V8.1
June 21, 2026
A new big-batch draft mode for V8.1 — generate 24 lower-resolution images for half the price of a Standard-res 4-image job. Like one? Press "Vary" to get full-resolution versions.
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--no Flag Returns in V8.1
May 21, 2026
A small but requested update: the --no flag (anti-prompting) is back in V8.1. Trying to get something out of your images? Try --no people.
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V8.1 Image Quality Improved
May 1, 2026
Midjourney shipped image-quality improvements to V8.1 — sharper detail, better prompt fidelity, and cleaner outputs across the board.
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V8.1 Is Live
April 15, 2026
Midjourney V8.1 is here. Iconic aesthetics are back with native 2K HD rendering — 3x faster and 3x cheaper vs V8. Full quality V8.1 1K mode is faster than V7 draft mode. Image prompts are back, new "Describe" is live, plus new moodboards and style references.
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