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1. the fair-use answer · midjourney-timeline · 2025-08-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "midjourney answers the disney suit: training is fair use — 'to understand concepts by extracting statistical information,' the way a person learns by looking. the filing notes 'many dozens' of subscribers on the plaintiffs' own corporate email domains and quotes bob iger praising ai as 'an invaluable tool for artists.'",
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2. warner bros. discovery sues · midjourney-timeline · 2025-09-04 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "warner bros. discovery becomes the third studio — superman, batman, bugs bunny, rick and morty — and adds a sharper allegation: that midjourney removed prior copyright protections after the disney filing. up to $150k statutory damages per work.",
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3. time100 and isef · midjourney-timeline · 2025 (year) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2025",
     "detail": "holz makes the time100 ai list (portrait credited to sxsw) and appears at regeneron isef as a society for science trustee — midjourney sponsors the fair's 'technology enhances the arts' award. he is a 2006 isef alum; his high-school project lost 'to somebody who cured a disease.'",
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4. niji v7 · midjourney-timeline · 2026-01-09 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "niji v7 — the spellbrush line keeps pace with the main model.",
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5. v8 alpha — the pytorch rewrite · midjourney-timeline · 2026-03-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2026-03-17",
     "detail": "v8 alpha — the codebase rewritten from the google-tpu stack to gpu-native pytorch: native 2k --hd, --q 4 coherence, ~5x faster than v7, and personalization, moodboards, and srefs carried over. a big training run ('possibly called v8.1') is teased days later.",
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     "title": "v8 alpha — the pytorch rewrite"
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6. the 2026 check-in · midjourney-timeline · 2026-03-29 (day) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2026-03-29",
     "detail": "holz tells the information revenue 'significantly surpassed' $200m and has grown despite declining web traffic — and that the hardware ambitions might force the company's first vc raise. reported; paywalled, relayed via winbuzzer.",
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7. v8.1 and v8.2 · midjourney-timeline · 2026-04-14 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2026-04-14",
     "detail": "v8.1 alpha (default june 10–11: 4s sd / 12s hd renders, hd ~3× cheaper); v8.2 lands july 24 as the current default and ships the new edit model — replacing omni reference, character reference, and retexture in one.",
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8. midjourney medical — the scanner and the spa · midjourney-timeline · 2026-06-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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     "date": "2026-06-17",
     "detail": "the 'secret hardware project' is revealed in a livestream (~30k x viewers): midjourney medical, a new division, and the midjourney scanner — a water-immersion full-body ultrasound-ct built on 40 butterfly network modules (358,000 elements, ~½mm detail, a one-minute scan goal). plus a 24/7 spa at 300 grant ave, union square — 23,000 sq ft on a 10-year lease, targeting end-2027. the ambitions — 50,000+ scanners by ~2031, 'a billion scans a month' — are company goals, not results.",
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9. the chief design officer surfaces · midjourney-timeline · 2026-08-12 (day) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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     "detail": "office hours hosted while holz is away: duncan wilson (web team lead) and banu güler — the co-star co-founder, now midjourney's chief design officer.",
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