Midjourney V6.1

Closed weights Midjourney July 2024

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Midjourney
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
30 July 2024

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Image generation
Task
Image generation

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Hosted access (no API)
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Midjourney V6.1 was published by Midjourney, in United States of America, in July 2024. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Image generation, and is recorded as doing image generation.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Answers

Midjourney V6.1 — common questions

01

When was Midjourney V6.1 released?

Midjourney V6.1 was published in July 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

02

What is Midjourney V6.1 used for?

Midjourney V6.1 works in Image generation, and is recorded as handling image generation. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

03

What GPU do I need to run Midjourney V6.1?

None. Midjourney V6.1 is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

04

Is Midjourney V6.1 open source?

No. Midjourney V6.1 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

05

How many parameters does Midjourney V6.1 have?

No parameter count has been published for Midjourney V6.1, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

06

Who created Midjourney V6.1?

Midjourney V6.1 was published by Midjourney, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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