{"id":1796,"date":"2026-06-20T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:36:08","slug":"midjourney-is-shifting-from-ai-art-to-body-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmovingexpertss.com\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Midjourney is shifting from AI art to body scans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every company eventually asks what it wants to be when it grows up. Most pick an answer that fits the business they already run.<\/p>\n

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A software firm builds more software. A retailer opens more stores. The safe move is to stay in your lane and defend the turf you already own.<\/p>\n

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Artificial intelligence (AI) labs have mostly followed that script. The biggest names, OpenAI and Google among them, keep fighting over the same crowded ground: chatbots, coding assistants, and the image and video generators that now flood social feeds.<\/p>\n

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The competition is brutal, the copyright lawsuits are piling up, and the pressure to look different from the next lab gets heavier every quarter.<\/p>\n

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So when one of those image companies finally answered the question of what it wants to become, I expected the usual: another model, another app, maybe a cheaper monthly plan to undercut a rival.<\/p>\n

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What I did not expect was a pivot this far off the map. The company behind some of the internet’s most recognizable AI art, Midjourney, said on June 17 that it is building a full-body medical scanner.<\/p>\n

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How Midjourney went from AI art to body scans<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Midjourney is not a typical Silicon Valley story. The lab has no outside investors and runs on subscription fees of $10 to $120 a month, according to PYMNTS.<\/p>\n

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Founder David Holz, who earlier co-founded the gesture-control company Leap Motion, has turned Midjourney into one of the most recognizable names in generative imagery.<\/p>\n

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That is what makes the swerve so strange. An image lab with no venture backers and no hardware history just told the world its next act is a medical scanner meant to rival a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.<\/p>\n

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Holz pitched it as the first genuinely new full-body imaging technology in five decades. The company admitted in its announcement that the idea sits far outside anything it has built before.<\/p>\n

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The scanner is one of eight projects the lab is running, split evenly between hardware and software, according to PYMNTS. Most companies would bury a medical device in a research note. Midjourney made it the headline.<\/p>\n

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The mechanism reads like science fiction. You step onto a platform that lowers you into a shallow pool of warm water at about two inches per second, while a ring of sensors fires sound waves through your body from every angle.<\/p>\n

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Midjourney compares the sensors to a dolphin using echolocation.<\/p>\n

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Inside the Midjourney scanner, spa, and Butterfly deal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The product, announced June 17, is called the Midjourney Scanner, and it anchors a new division named Midjourney Medical. The company says a prototype builds a full three-dimensional map of the body in 60 seconds, with no radiation and no powerful magnets.<\/p>\n

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The pitch is built for people who hate hospitals. The system is “as powerful as MRI, and as casual as a trip to the spa,” according to Midjourney’s blog post.<\/p>\n

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Then comes the part that explains the warm water. Since you are already wet, Midjourney is building a spa to go with the machine.<\/p>\n

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The first one is set for San Francisco’s Union Square, spanning three floors with a gym, saunas, cold plunges, and hot tubs, with about ten scanners inside, opening in 2027.<\/p>\n

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Here is where the markets reader needs to slow down. Midjourney is privately held, so you cannot buy its stock.<\/p>\n

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