Midjourney launches a medical division, unveiling a conceptual 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner to replace MRIs · Digg

Midjourney launches a medical division, unveiling a conceptual 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner to replace MRIs · Digg

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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

Midjourney is opening a health spa in downtown San Francisco with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and a new form of medical imaging that they have created, the full body ultrasound.

They can do a scan in 60 seconds. They want to deploy 50,000 of them over the next 6 years.

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Alex Volkov@altryne

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.

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gabriel@gabriel1

first profitable ai company reinvests everything into trying to save millions of lives and to make it as generally available as possible

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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David@DavidSHolz

we kept it a secret at leap motion that i filmed and edited all the videos myself - its been now ~10 years since i filmed and edited a video like this and i was honestly quite nervous that my skills weren't up to par for the task - but im very happy everyone seems to like it!

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Nick Dobos@NickADobos

Midjourney made the first new medical imaging system in over 50 years!?

Full body ultrasound. USCF

You get dunked in a full body tube of water and blasted with sound waves for 60 seconds

They are building a Midjourney spa in SF, with saunas and hot tubs, hoping to open by end of 2027

They also hinted that future versions may be more than just a scanning device, as ultrasound is already used for many therapies

Incredible medical potential. Wow.

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Blake Byers@byersblake

You'll see a lot of doctors come out "against" this kind of broad screening system. They can even get quite agitated about it. This resistance stems from a well-established clinical consensus: traditional population-level imaging fails to improve health outcomes because false positives and invasive follow-ups do more harm than good. But this view suffers from an obvious blind spot. Existing studies rely on static data and completely ignore time-series imaging. And time-series is ignored because we haven't been able to afford to do high frequency imaging at population scale. Clearly, time series is going to be immensely more valuable than a single image. If you drop costs, value can go from 0 -> 1. On a more fundamental level, the argument against screening rests on an obviously false precept "More information is bad" -- just clearly untrue. More information better, you just have to interpret it correctly.

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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tobi lutke@tobi

This looks like a contender for one of the most legendary pivots

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

sci-fi vibes intensify

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Casey Handmer@CJHandmer

I'm old enough to remember reading Born and Wolf and the principle of holography stating that with enough computing power you can solve the complete Green function within some volume down to half a wavelength (or even better...) but that that level of computation was beyond imagination. So we made do with beam ultrasound, like peasants.

Midjourney@midjourney

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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Taelin@VictorTaelin

I'm kinda speechless, not sure what I could write. This was the most unexpected and important launch of the year, and that includes Fable. If this is real it will save countless lives

Midjourney@midjourney

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele

Midjourney Full Body Medical Scanner.

Everything you need to know.

Read on.

Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele

http://x.com/i/article/2067466928000757761

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

The Midjourney medical thing is genuinely strange and I kind of love it.

The plan is a spa.

Hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, open 24/7, first location in San Francisco in 2027.

You step into a shallow pool of water, sink slowly through a ring of half a million tiny ultrasonic sensors, and in about 60 seconds you walk out with a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No magnets, no radiation, no contrast, just sound waves and warm water.

Compare that to how we do this now:

They say it's close to 100x faster than an MRI ("60 seconds"). For context, a normal MRI in the US averages around $1,300 and the scan alone can take over an hour inside a loud metal tube. A full-body scan from Prenuvo runs about $2,500 for roughly the same hour.

Midjourney wants to flip the whole feeling of it. Build a place you'd want to visit even if there were no scanner, then collect the health data as a side effect. I have no idea yet if the tech delivers what they claim. But the framing is smart.

The hardest problem in preventive health has always been getting people to actually show up, and a spa solves that better than a hospital ever will.

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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roon@tszzl

the technological revolution we were promised

Midjourney@midjourney

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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David@DavidSHolz

this might be my favorite video ive ever made. i was making web visualizers for every part of our stack and i added a zoom and said "whoa this looks like a Max Cooper music video" then i got license to a Max Cooper song, added some technical narrative subtitles and ahhh 🥺❤️❤️

Midjourney@midjourney

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

The Midjourney ultrasound is made in partnership with Butterfly Health ($BFLY), which is going to fly today

Still cheap if you think this 50k unit figure is possible.

Btw they announced the partnership with Midjourney in November, stock up ~300% since then.

Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

Midjourney is opening a health spa in downtown San Francisco with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and a new form of medical imaging that they have created, the full body ultrasound.

They can do a scan in 60 seconds. They want to deploy 50,000 of them over the next 6 years.

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Sholto Douglas@_sholtodouglas

If deployed widely - I bet this will save the US healthcare system at least 100x all of MJ’s profit to date.

It’s a great example of how much better someone like David is able to allocate capital than ~the rest of the world.

The AI boom should empower a generation of people who understand just how fast we can climb the tech tree, and will dream very, very big. Expect incredible things.

When Midjourney Dyson Spheres?

Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguire

Massive congrats to @DavidSHolz and the @midjourney team

It’s amazing to see someone take their AI winnings and put it into hardware that can save lives

This is inspiring work, and I hope to see more of it from the AI community

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♡@x_lovergrl_x

@midjourney Very incredible 🩷

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GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg

For all the people that say that you can’t build an important business unless you raise venture capital

Midjourney is bootstrapped

Midjourney@midjourney

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguire

Massive congrats to @DavidSHolz and the @midjourney team

It’s amazing to see someone take their AI winnings and put it into hardware that can save lives

This is inspiring work, and I hope to see more of it from the AI community

Midjourney@midjourney

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

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