Midjourney users might be in for a Christmas present: Model version 6 seems to be in the starting blocks. The company has started to collect user feedback for images generated with v6. In the past, the model release followed shortly after. Paying users can provide feedback on the generated images here. According to Midjourney, the sample images are not representative of what MJ v6 will offer in terms of quality. The team promises more coherent images for v6, with improvements in prompt understanding, world knowledge, image prompts, text rendering, and other things that cannot be judged from the test images alone. Midjourney has also recently released the alpha version for web generation.
Google is rolling out the next update for Bard after the recent Gemini Pro upgrade. Bard extensions now support Japanese and Korean languages in addition to English. Extensions allow users to access real-time information from Google apps and services such as YouTube, Hotels, Flights, Maps, Gmail, Docs and Drive. Users can control their privacy settings when using these extensions. In addition, Bard now supports Replit export for 18 programming languages, including C++, Javascript, Ruby, SQL and Swift, up from Python only. According to Google, this update is aimed at the growing number of developers using Bard as a programming tool. The biggest update for Bard may be Gemini Ultra support early next year, bringing the chatbot up to par with GPT-4. It's not clear yet if Google will launch a paid service for Bard with Gemini Ultra like OpenAI for ChatGPT Plus.
ChatGPT celebrated its birthday on November 30, 2023, and Similarweb published this beautiful infographic to mark the occasion. Until May 2023, the chatbot grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 1.8 billion monthly visits. Traffic dropped off in June 2023, but has been rebounding since September 2023 - likely due in part to high school and college students returning from their summer vacations.
