What would you build first with a free local image model?
Ideogram 4.0 just dropped, and it's their first ever open weights release. This is HUGE!! If you do any image work in your builds (thumbnails, ad creative, lead magnets, social graphics), pay attention to this one. What's actually new: - First Ideogram model you can download and run yourself. Every version before this was closed API only. - Native 2K output with text that renders correctly, baked in. No patching it in after the fact. - Ranked #1 among all open weight models on the DesignArena leaderboard. The only models scoring higher are closed ones from OpenAI and Google. - Don't want to self host? Run it through fal.ai. Pricing starts around $0.03 per megapixel in Turbo mode, and anything you generate through the API is yours to use commercially. The text rendering is the real story. That's the thing a lot of image models still botch, and it's exactly what matters for design and ad work. Hugging Face download links, API pricing, and more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vveMIlHaM12fNERyfSzAtvQiyFSfG4cYvGqgXgxtWlk/edit?usp=sharing