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Midjourney, the company best known for its AI image models, announced a new division called Midjourney Medical and its first product is a full-body ultrasonic scanner. Patients descend into a shallow pool, passing through a ring of roughly half a million sensors that fire sound waves and capture echoes, reconstructing a 3D body map without radiation or magnets. The company claims near-MRI resolution at up to 100 times the speed and a few dollars per scan. Developed with Butterfly Network, the scanner debuts at a "Midjourney Spa" in San Francisco in late 2027. The scanner, developed with ultrasound chipmaker Butterfly Network, won't launch in a hospital but inside a wellness center called the "Midjourney Spa," opening in San Francisco in late 2027 alongside hot tubs, saunas, and cold plunges. Midjourney's long-term ambition is a fleet of 50,000 scanners performing a billion full-body scans a month, reframing medical imaging as something casual and routine rather than rare and expensive. If the technology delivers on its claims, it could shift medicine toward catching disease early in healthy people, though the scanner remains an unproven prototype that still needs clinical validation and FDA clearance for any diagnostic use.