Midjourney releases V7, its first new AI image model in nearly a year

7 Apr 2025

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 began rolling out in alpha around midnight ET on Thursday, 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, though — at least not officially — but it nonetheless can generate aesthetically pleasing works, at least to this reporter’s dilettante eye.