Reply to this meme of a wizard holding a ball from the ICE book Middle-earth: Valar and MaiarThe founder of Midjourney joked that the new device might be shaped like a ball.
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Midjourney, known for its powerful AI image generation tool, has publicly announced that it is “getting into hardware” and is inviting job seekers to apply to join its new hardware division.
The company Share the ad On her official X account earlier today.
Midjourney founder David Holz previously worked at a hardware company, where he was CTO of Leap Motion. A few months ago, he hired Ahmed Abbas, who he worked with at Leap Motion. Abbas also worked at Apple for five years as a hardware manager working on the Vision Pro headset. LinkedIn Profile His current title is now listed as “Head of Mid-Flight Devices”.
Nothing is known yet about what kind of device Midjourney will be developing, but the X account has posted several tweets today that may give internet sleuths some insight into its exact plans. For example, It was published. The device “will not be a necklace” following a string of recent failures of necklace-like AI devices.
The company I tweeted He has “multiple flight efforts” when asked for more details about the device and male “There are definitely opportunities for more form factors.”
If you really want to stretch, you can refer to the fact that Holz tweeted months ago, “We will make the ballIn response to an X user joking that someone should make a device with a spherical form factor inspired by wizard balls from fantasy stories, like Saruman’s Orb Palantir From the Lord of the Rings.
In case it wasn’t obvious, both Midjourney and Holz have been so prolific on the X with teasers and jokes about it that you probably shouldn’t read much into anything they’ve said other than a commitment to producing some kind of hardware.
There’s no timeline either, so it could be a while before we see what happens. At this point, Midjourney is just one of many companies trying to figure out what AI-powered devices will look like.