Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's building a cross-functional design, product and frontend team for all our efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banus complete control. Welcome Banu and team <3

Midjourney, the company behind the popular AI image generator, has unveiled what it says is the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner. >The technology aims to make full-body imaging safer and more affordable. >During the scan, people are lowered into water while ultrasound waves create detailed 3D images of more than 25 organs and body structures in about one minute. >The scan uses no radiation. Midjourney is working toward FDA approval for future diagnostic uses and plans to bring the scanner to market by the end of 2027.

MidJourney just announced... a full body ultrasound! Yup... read on because it's as crazy as it sounds. "As powerful as MRI and as casual as a trip to the spa" They are calling it "the @midjourney scanner" Insane details: - First, the scale. The device uses 8,960 individual transducers arranged in a ring around your body - The precision is the most jaw-dropping part: it resolves motion at the picometer range. It can image internal tissues finer than the width of an atom. We are talking sub-atomic level diagnostic capability - The compute requirement is massive. The system processes 17 gigabytes of data per second. It takes 40GB of raw data to reconstruct just one cross-sectional slice. And they are planning to scan 100 slices? - Midjourney claims that fewer than 12 of these machines could perform more full-body scans than every MRI machine on Earth combined. Welcome to the future of healthcare! Not only these scanners are announced, they will exist in a "Midjourney SPA" - with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and 9-10 whole body scanners.

Midjourney will be announcing its first hardware project tomorrow (Wednesday 6/17) at 6pm PT. Stay tuned for a livestream of our in-person launch event in San Francisco. If you're in town and want an invite, reply below, we have just a few slots left.

Cognition/Poke and Midjourney/Co-Star may be the start of a new era: Best-in-class model/research teams combining with best-in-class product teams These skill sets rarely naturally coexist, especially in consumer

Why is the Midjourney team uniquely qualified to build medical hardware? @BeffJezos, founder of @extropic: "David's a trained physicist. He worked at NASA. He was a founder of Leap Motion, which is completely slept on as one of the first major projects he worked on." "What I really like about that team is that a lot of the same team from Leap Motion followed David into Midjourney and now into this hardware exploration." "They were training neural nets before there was TensorFlow, before there was GPUs. They did it on CPUs, and they had some of the first neural network technology deployed in a consumer product." "So people are like, 'Why would a gen AI company pivot into medical devices?' It's really folks that came from the hardware world finding this unique blend between neural nets and hardware to achieve things people didn't think were possible." "If it's physically possible, I very much have faith that that team can pull it off."