Midjourney, one of the most popular image generation startups, announced Wednesday launch From his long -awaited video generation model AI, V1.
V1 is a video image model, in which users can upload an image or make an image generated by one of the other stormy-and-v1 storm models will produce a set of four five-second videos based on it. Like Midjourney Image Models, V1 is only available through Discord and is only available on the launch website.
The launch of V1 puts Midjourney competition with AI video generation models of other companies, such as Openai’s Sora, Runway’s Gen 4, Adobe’s Firefly and Google’s Veo. While many companies are focused on developing AI video models controllables to use them in commercial scenarios, Midjourney has always been shown for their badge -type models, Creative.
The company says it has bigger goals for its AI video models than to generate B-Roll for Hollywood films or advertising for the advertising industry. In a block Published, Midjourney’s CEO David Holz says his AI video model is the next step of the company towards his final destination, creating Ai models “capable of open -time simulations in real time”.
After AI video models, Midjourney claims that it plans to develop AI models to produce 3D renders, as well as real -time IA models.
The launch of Midjourney’s V1 model comes just one week after the startup was sued by two of Hollywood’s most notorious film studies: Disney and Universal. The dress claims that the images created by Midjourney’s Image AI models represent the characters with Copyright of the studio, such as Homer Simpson and Darth Vader.
Hollywood studies have struggled to face the growing popularity of the IA image and the models that generate video, such as those that develop Midjourney. There is a growing fear that these tools of the AI can replace or devalue the work of creatives in their respective fields, and several media companies have alleged that these products are formed in their copyright works.
While Midjourney has tried to launch -different from the other image and video startups, more focused on creativity than immediate commercial applications, the startup cannot escape these accusations.
To begin with, Midjourney says he will charge 8x more for a video generation than a typical generation of images, which means that the subscribers will be left without a monthly monthly generations assigned faster when you create videos than pictures.
In the launch, the cheapest way to try V1 is to subscribe to the Basic Plan of $ 10 per month of Midjourney. Subscribers of the Professional Plan of $ 60 per month of Midjourney and the Mega Plan of $ 120 a month will have unlimited video generations in the “relaxing” more “relaxing” mode of the company. During the following month, Midjourney says he will evaluate his prices for video models.
V1 includes some personalized configurations that allow users to control the outputs of the video model.
Users can select an automatic animation settings to make an image randomly move or can select a manual settings that allow users to describe, in text, a specific animation that they want to add to their video. Users can also commute the amount of camera and motion of subjects by selecting “low motion” or “High motion” in settings.
Although V1 videos have only five seconds, users may choose to expand them four seconds up to four times, which means V videos V1 could reach up to 21 seconds.
Like Midjourney Image AI models, the first demonstrations of V1 videos seem a bit world, instead of hyperrealistic. The initial response to V1 has been positive, although it is not yet clear to what extent is to other leading ai video models, which have been on the market for months or even years.
