{"slug": "ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model", "title": "Ideogram releases its first open-weight image model", "summary": "Ideogram released Ideogram 4, its first open-weight text-to-image model, and published the inference code and weights on GitHub. The 9.3 billion parameter model, trained from scratch as a foundation model, is now available for developers and design teams seeking greater control beyond standard text prompts.", "body_md": "Ideogram (@ideogram ai) released Ideogram 4, its first open weight text to image model, and published inference code and weights in a GitHub repository. The company says the 9.3B parameter model is a foundation model trained from scratch, not a fine tune or distillation of an existing checkpoint, and can be tried online at ideogram.ai. https://x.com/ideogram ai/status/2062202208700313872 The release is aimed at developers and design teams that want more control than a plain text prompt usuall...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model", "published_at": "2026-06-03 18:44:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 19:14:16.672783+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-research", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Ideogram", "Ideogram 4", "GitHub", "ideogram.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model.jsonld"}}