Midjourney is an independent research lab that builds AI-powered creative tools — best known for its text-to-image generator, which lets anyone produce high-quality, stylized visuals by typing a prompt. Subscribers pay $10–$120/month for access; the platform has roughly 21 million registered users and no free tier. It runs almost entirely through Discord and its own web interface, with no outside investors — founder David Holz has kept it fully self-funded since 2021. In 2025–2026 the company quietly launched a second, entirely unrelated business: "Midjourney Medical," which is building what it calls the world's first full-body ultrasound CT (USCT) scanner, paired with a consumer "spa" experience. That product is a regulated FDA-class medical device — hardware, embedded firmware, HIPAA-compliant cloud, and clinical imaging reconstruction — bearing almost no resemblance to the core AI art tool. These are effectively two companies sharing a brand and founder.