Butterfly Network, Inc. designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real-time and three-dimensional imaging and treatment. It develops and provides a whole-body portable ultrasound scanner called the iQ Device and related hosted, web-based application, application programming interfaces and platform services, which the firm offer to physicians or other licensed health care providers. Its products include iQ+ Ultrasound, Butterfly Enterprise and iQ Vet. The company was founded by Jonathan M. Rothberg on January 25, 2011 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.
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- AI image-generation company Midjourney announced a new medical division and unveiled a full-body ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) scanner designed for wellness settings rather than diagnostic use. - The scanner, built in partnership with Butterfly Network under a deal potentially worth $74 million, aims to produce sub-millimeter body maps in 60 seconds, though current prototypes take about 20 minutes per scan. - Midjourney plans to open a 25,000-square-foot spa in San Francisco by late 2027, positioning the scanner as a wellness product to operate outside FDA medical device regulations while accumulating vast imaging datasets. - The company's long-term ambition of 50,000 scanners and one billion scans per month by 2031 suggests the true goal is building a massive training dataset for future AI-driven disease detection models.
- Butterfly Network secured FDA clearance for the first AI-powered ultrasound tool to estimate gestational age in the U.S., delivering results in under two minutes without requiring image capture or biometric measurements. - The tool was trained on over 21 million ultrasound images from diverse populations and provides consistent results for pregnancies between 16-37 weeks using a "blind-sweep" method. - The technology addresses critical healthcare gaps in emergency settings, rural U.S. communities, and low-resource international markets where maternal mortality remains high. - The company has already deployed the tool in Malawi and Uganda through Gates Foundation support and plans to expand across sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S.
