Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort

Midjourney just made the weirdest pivot in recent tech memory. The company best known for generating AI art has unveiled its first hardware product — and it's a medical device.

The Midjourney Scanner is an ultrasound-based full-body scanner. The company claims the device will be "in many ways superior to even MRI machines." That's a bold statement from a startup with zero track record in medical imaging hardware.

Perhaps the strangest part: it's unclear how AI actually fits into this effort. Midjourney built its reputation on generative AI image models, but the connection between dreamy AI art and diagnostic body scanning remains unexplained.

The scanner is being described as a side project, which is an interesting way to characterize a medical device that presumably requires FDA scrutiny. No pricing, availability, or clinical validation details have been shared yet.