“Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature

On Thursday, Midjourney unveiled version 5.2 of its AI-powered image synthesis model, which includes a new "zoom out" feature that allows maintaining a central synthesized image while automatically building out a larger scene around it, simulating zooming out with a camera lens.

Similar to outpainting—an AI imagery technique introduced by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in August 2022—Midjourney's zoom-out feature can take an existing AI-generated image and expand its borders while keeping its original subject centered in the new image ... At the moment, v5.2's zoom-out only works on images generated within Midjourney, a subscription AI image-generator service.