Ideogram 4.0 is an open image model at the forefront of design, built for open weights, multilingual text, precise layout control, editable elements, and realistic 2K images. It is a state-of-the-art open-weight image model for developers and enterprises that want to build, fine-tune, and run visual intelligence on their own hardware. Ideogram 4.0 was trained with a describe-to-structure-to-recreate loop, first reading scenes, backgrounds, text, and objects as structured data, then learning to rebuild images from that representation. This approach is designed to help the model understand composition before recreating it, giving teams more control over layout, objects, typography, and visual structure. It is built for real design work, especially brand, advertising, fashion, marketing, food, apparel, social, photography, and illustration use cases. Ideogram has led on text rendering since launch, and 4.0 adds bounding-box layout control so headlines stay readable.