Ideogram releases 4.0 as open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model

Ideogram has open-sourced its 4.0 text-to-image model at 9.3 billion parameters, making a capable image generation model freely available for self-hosting and experimentation. For indie makers, this means a serious text-to-image backbone they can run and build on without per-image API costs or vendor lock-in.