Midjourney Medical unveiled a water-based, full-body ultrasound scanner and a planned "spa" — a hardware bet that has nothing to do with its image models. The image generator is not going away.
2026-06-24 · by Moe Ameen
In mid-June 2026, Midjourney — the company best known for its text-to-image generator — announced Midjourney Medical, a new division, and demoed its first piece of hardware: a full-body ultrasound scanner it is positioning as "Ultrasonic CT." Reporting from The Register, Bloomberg, Engadget, and others, clustered around June 18, 2026, covered a live San Francisco demo. Despite "pivot" in many headlines, Midjourney has not said it is shutting down image generation; Medical is described as a new business line, not a replacement.
The scanner images the body using sound waves and water — no radiation, no magnetic fields. The prototype uses a ring of 40 ultrasound imaging modules totaling roughly 358,000 transducer elements that fire ultrasonic waves into a water tank and listen for the echoes up to about 1,000 times a second, reconstructing tissue detail down to roughly half a millimeter. Midjourney's stated goal is a whole-body scan in about a minute. The hardware is being built with Butterfly Network; Midjourney signed a licensing agreement in November 2025 for exclusive rights to Butterfly's "ultrasound-on-chip" technology, and a Butterfly SEC filing referenced expecting on the order of $74 million over five years from the arrangement.
The consumer concept is a "spa": guests step into a shallow pool of golden light before being lowered into a scanning tank. Midjourney says it plans to open a first San Francisco location around the end of 2027 and aims for 50,000 or more scanners worldwide by 2031. It has floated bold claims — that the device is far cheaper and faster than an MRI, and that widespread preventative imaging could avoid a large share of deaths and healthcare costs. Treat those as the company's prototype-stage claims, not verified results; radiologists and reporters have flagged the lack of a clinical track record.
The key clarification for anyone confused by the headlines: the scanner's imaging is not produced by Midjourney's generative image models. It runs on Butterfly's ultrasound chips and conventional reconstruction. The part of Midjourney that creators actually use — the image (and now short video) generator — is untouched by this announcement and continues to ship under its usual subscription tiers.
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No. Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical as a new division alongside its existing image (and short video) generation product. Despite "pivot" headlines, the company has not said it is discontinuing image generation, and that product continues under its usual subscription tiers.
It is a full-body ultrasound imaging device Midjourney calls "Ultrasonic CT." The prototype uses a ring of 40 modules with roughly 358,000 transducer elements that send sound waves through water and reconstruct tissue detail to about half a millimeter, with a goal of scanning a whole body in about a minute. It is built with Butterfly Network and uses no radiation.
No. The scanner runs on Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip hardware, licensed in November 2025, not on Midjourney's generative image models. The imaging is unrelated to the AI image generation the company is known for.
Not directly — the image generator is unchanged. The bigger-picture takeaway is platform risk: a company spreading into hardware is a reminder to keep a fallback image tool and to own your distribution. You can keep generating in Midjourney and use Kompozy to caption, repurpose, schedule, and publish across nine platforms.