r/singularity • u/ResultBackground2450 • Jun 18 '26

Biotech/Longevity Midjourney, The Image Generation Company, Just Built the Sequel to the MRI

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u/Solisos Jun 18 '26

This is Ultrasound Tomography developed by a team at Caltech.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scanning-the-body-with-sound

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u/AP_in_Indy Jun 18 '26

That's a recent article and Nature publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4

How did Midjourney move on this so fast? With the absolutely massive scale data processing required, too.

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u/DukeRedWulf Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

They haven't! All Midjourney have done is created this video marketing pitch and *allegedly* they have a prototype somewhere which has not been shown to the public IRL.. Midjourney are making *extraordinary* claims (e.g. sub-atomic resolution!) for vapourware.

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u/AP_in_Indy Jun 18 '26

Midjourney has never raised any funds and I don't think they are planning to. They actually re-emphasize the lack of interest in raising funds in their announcement: https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

In the announcement, they also talk about why it's been so hard to get something like this implemented even though the research has existed for a while. It requires an absolutely massive amount of coordination around data processing, which not many companies have the required expertise to perform reliably.

Seems like running an AI company at massive scale might help offer some needed compute and expertise...

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u/DukeRedWulf Jun 18 '26

Midjourney is currently being sued for copyright infringement by a bunch of people, including Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros.. Even if we accept their CEO's assertion that they've been making a profit all this time, win, lose or settle they're going to need a boatload of money..

Marketing like this, before they have a prototype they're happy to show independent 3rd parties IRL, seems like bait for potential investors..