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Midjourney's strangest bet yet

Midjourney's strangest bet yet

PLUS: OpenAI's next model may arrive sooner than expected

Barsee
19 Jun

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here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

Midjourney's strangest bet yet
OpenAI's next model may arrive sooner than expected
Anthropic expects its most powerful models to be back online
OpenAI is quietly becoming a healthcare company
Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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PEAK OF THE DAY

Courtesy: Midjourney

Midjourney's strangest bet yet

Midjourney just announced something nobody had on their 2026 bingo card: a full-body ultrasound scanner.

The scanner lowers people into water and surrounds them with ultrasound sensors before scanning the entire body in about a minute. Founder David Holz says it could approach MRI-level detail while being significantly faster and easier to deploy.

But the hardware is only part of the story.

Midjourney also plans to open dedicated "Midjourney Spa" locations in San Francisco, combining the scanners with saunas, cold plunges, gyms, and hot tubs. Holz says the company hopes to build 50,000 scanners and eventually use the technology to help perform thousands of medical diagnoses.

For a company that built its reputation generating AI artwork, the move feels completely out of left field.

Until you look around.

OpenAI is creeping into healthcare. Amazon built its own chips. Tesla went from software to robots. The biggest AI companies aren't staying in their lanes anymore.

Which makes Midjourney's scanner less surprising.

The real surprise is how quickly AI companies are turning into something else.

(See the announcement video here)

THROUGH THE VALLEY

Courtesy: TestingCatalog

1/ OpenAI's next model may arrive sooner than expected: Reports suggest GPT-5.6 could launch as early as next week, bringing improvements in coding, reasoning, agent workflows, and potentially a 1.5 million token context window. OpenAI is also rumored to be lowering prices again.

2/ Anthropic expects its most powerful models back online within days: Anthropic says access to Mythos and Fable 5 should return soon after temporary restrictions tied to security concerns forced the company to limit availability worldwide. The models remain available through a controlled-access program used by major technology companies.

3/ The coding model race keeps accelerating: Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a model built specifically for large-scale software projects, debugging, research, and coding agents. With a 1 million-token context window, the model is designed to work across entire repositories rather than individual files.

4/ OpenAI is quietly becoming a healthcare company: OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT health-related questions every week. Researchers working with OpenAI also helped identify 18 previously unsolved rare-disease diagnoses that were later confirmed by physicians.

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Ponder > The agentic video editor
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HappyOyster 1.0 > An open-ended world model that enables real-time world generation, exploration, and interactive simulation

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