Martin Casado highlights Ideogram's June 3, 2026 announcement of Ideogram 4.0, praising its performance on design tasks and framing the release as a win for the open-source AI ecosystem. Ideogram markets 4.0 as the "best open image model," offering downloadable weights, local fine-tuning, and availability on all plans and the API.
Martin Casado (tweet dated 2026-06-03) endorses Ideogram 4.0, calling it a "new leading open source image model" with "incredible" performance on the design arena.
New leading open source image model!! Performance on design Arena is incredible.
So great to see the open source AI ecosystem continue to thrive.
Ideogram (@ideogram_ai)
Introducing Ideogram 4.0: the best open image model in the world.
Think it. Make it. Own it.
Download the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and run it on your hardware. Live on every Ideogram plan and the API today.
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