FiretheringIdeogram was founded by former Google Brain researchers who worked on Imagen, Google’s own text-to-image system. When that team releases an open-weight model, you pay attention.
Ideogram 4 tops the open-weight design leaderboard by a margin that isn’t close. Professional designers picked it first in blind typography tests nearly half the time. At 9.3B parameters it beats open models three times its size on text rendering.