December 21, 2023Model Release

Midjourney V6

Midjourney

Retrained from scratch. V6 renders legible text inside images for the first time, follows longer and more literal prompts, and over the following months ships the reference-image toolkit that matters most for narrative work: Style Reference (--sref) to lock a look and Character Reference (--cref) to hold a face across shots. Paired with the 2024 image-to-video explosion — Luma, Kling, Runway Gen-3 — V6 is what makes multi-shot AI stories, one character and one style across many frames, actually feasible.

Part of 2023 · The Cambrian Explosion

Last updated September 23, 2026