Midjourney
San Francisco AI research lab that makes the Midjourney text-to-image and video generation tool.
- Artificial intelligence
- active
- Founded 2021
- Researched Sep 2026
The story
Midjourney, Inc. was founded by David Holz, a former co-founder of Leap Motion, and launched its image generator via Discord in 2022.
Timeline
Company founded
David Holz starts Midjourney in San Francisco as an independent research lab
Discord bot launches
Public Discord server opens for image generation testing
Open beta begins
Midjourney image generator enters open beta
Version 4 alpha
Alpha of algorithm version 4 released to users
Disney and NBCUniversal lawsuit
Studios sue Midjourney alleging copyright infringement
Video V1 model launches
First image-to-video generation model released at $10/month
Midjourney Medical announced
New division building a full-body ultrasound scanning system
Founders
9 sourcesEvery fact above links back to these.
- Midjourney, Inc. - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- David Holz - Founder & CEO @ Midjourney - Crunchbasecrunchbase.com
- David Holz - Society for Sciencesocietyforscience.org
- Midjourney revenue, funding & news | Sacrasacra.com
- Midjourney revenue, funding & news | Sacrasacra.com
- Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for AI copyright infringementcnbc.com
- Midjourney V7: Features, Tips & VidMuse AI Workflowvidmuse.ai
- Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
- AI lab Midjourney investing over $74M to launch whole-body ultrasound screening businessradiologybusiness.com