Midjourney, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company, known for its image-generation model, Midjourney. It was founded in 2021 San Francisco, California, by David Holz, previously a co-founder of Leap Motion. Holz told The Register in August 2022 that the company was already profitable.

The company calls itself an "independent research lab".

Image generation model

The Midjourney image generation model entered open beta on July 12, 2022.

Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.

Medical imaging project In June 2026, Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a division developing a proposed full-body ultrasound system called Midjourney Scanner that scans users in water using a ring of sensors. The company said the system would produce body-composition scans in about 60 seconds and planned a San Francisco spa location for 2027.

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