Midjourney Medical goes from AI image quality to full ultrasounds

Midjourney CEO David Holz just revealed the company’s first hardware and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is very different from the “cat pictures” produced by its AI image generator. Recorded The Midjourney Scanneris an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture specific parts of the inside of your body, looking at the structure of your muscles, fat, bones, and organs. Holz said, you can do this once a year or every day, because it “requires imaging similar to an MRI in many ways.”

He said that one way he would like to use it is to see how his body changes based on diet and exercise, saying, “I’m not the most measured person in the world, you know, but maybe I want to have daily (measurement information). The list of advertising activities announces the company’s mission as trying to “build and install the first machine for the whole body, ultrasound, CT scanner, prevent and bring the safest CT scanner in the world, to protect and bring CT scan billions through magic tricks. “

The Midjourney Scanner was developed in partnership with ultrasound technology company Butterfly Network, which it said uses “40 Butterfly Ultrasound-on-Chip ™ imaging modules per system.”

The scan begins by passing through a platform that descends into the water on a rail through the wind of thousands of transducers that generate waves and record the waves that pass through your body to analyze them and create detailed 3D images, saying that the recording takes about 60 seconds. Holz said that about a dozen people have been photographed so far.

It begins with entering a shallow pool of golden light. Then you start going down into the water. Your body passes through a series of underwater sensors, each acting like a dolphin, using its echolocation. The sensors send ultrasonic waves into your body from every direction. With enough waves, with enough angles, we create a picture of what’s going on inside your body.

It combines the sensors with two petaflops of processing power. But after watching the reveal, I’m still not sure how Midjourney’s AI fits into Midjourney Medical’s efforts, beyond just some AI business not being used in some way.

Holz hopes to install 10 scanners at the Midjourney Spa location in San Francisco’s Union Square that will open in late 2027, and has volunteered to scan the hands of attendees at the event. The Midjourney Spa they will have gyms, saunas, and cold showers to go along with light rooms with hot tubs where guests can dive into the water for a view.

He added that different medical applications may require FDA approval, but for now, Midjourney Medical says it is working on “body-based mapping” that does not require the same approval as diagnostic imaging. It also says it’s a “library of scans” that users can share with doctors, AI health tools, or others, and that “We take data privacy seriously – more of our data policy will come as we get closer to implementation.”

Holz said that eventually the machine could be better than an MRI, without radiation, strong magnets, or other complications, to see what is happening in the human body “really quickly.” In response to a question, he envisioned a future where the FDA had tools to look for “weird” things and let people “just try to get as much information as we can.”