ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Ideogram releases since Mar 2025, most recently Ideogram 4.0 on Jun 4, 2026. Highlights include Ideogram 4.0, Ideogram 3.0. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live, plus key numbers where we have them.
Ideogram 4.0 becomes the top open-weight text-to-image model
Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0, a 9.3B-parameter text-to-image model with open weights under a non-commercial license. It leads open-weight image models on typography and layout, with bounding-box/layout-style prompting that trades casual generation ease for precise structured control.
Ideogram 3.0 launches with strong text, logos, and style references
Ideogram launched version 3.0 of its image generation model with another SOTA claim. It is particularly strong on text and logo rendering, photorealism, and style references, continuing Ideogram's edge in typography-heavy image generation.
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