Midjourney bets it all on medical hardware — experts smell snake oil
midjourney announced a water-based ultrasound scanner claiming mri-rivaling power, but radiologists demand proof for the sudden pivot into regulated hardware.
known for generative ai, midjourney announced a shock pivot into hardware with a water-tank ultrasound scanner designed to capture full-body internal images rapidly. ceo david holz claims the system uses ai to process massive datasets and achieve mri-level detail in a casual setting, yet the company has released zero clinical evidence. radiologists question the novelty and physics of the approach, noting that decades-old ultrasound technology has well-understood limits that conflict with midjourney's bold claims. skepticism is also growing regarding the regulatory pathway and the unclear connection between this hardware project and midjourney's core ai image generation business.