# Ideogram releases its first open-weight image model

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/ideogram-releases-its-first-open-weight-image-model>
> Published: 2026-06-03 18:44:55+00:00

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...