The AI picture era wars are heating up. Just as Google has launched its personal Pixel Studio generator to disastrous results, AI startup Ideogram announced Wednesday on X (previously Twitter) has introduced the second model launch of its product with the identical title, Ideogram 2.0.
In addition to growing its mannequin’s new artistic capabilities, the corporate additionally says it’s rolling out an iOS app, an API, and a visible search system. The announcement comes after a big week in AI image generation, with the launch of Grok-2 and a major Midjourney replace.
Introducing Ideogram 2.0 — our most superior text-to-image mannequin, now obtainable to all customers totally free.
Today’s milestone launch additionally consists of the discharge of the Ideogram iOS app, the beta model of the Ideogram API, and Ideogram Search.
Here’s what’s new… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/nvD0ogRh2J
— Ideogram (@ideogram_ai) August 21, 2024
Ideogram 2.0 permits customers to generate pictures in one in all 5 distinct kinds: General, Realistic, Design, 3D, and Anime. General, which you’ll see from the horse-sized geese combating duck-sized horses under, offers you a primary illustration based mostly in your immediate.
Realistic fashion produces nearer to photographic-quality pictures (under), right down to the proper variety of eyes and fingers, er, feathers.
Design presents improved textual content rendering and permits customers to overlay a picture with particular shade schemes and pallets, making it a great tool in quickly iterating logos and graphics.
3D fashion will return, you guessed it, a 3D rendered picture that, on this duck’s case, in some way appears extra lifelike than the Realistic fashion, whereas Anime does precisely what you suppose it does.
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The firm additionally introduced the discharge of its Ideogram Search engine, which is able to allow customers to extra effectively seek for inspiration amid Ideogram’s billion-plus public pictures, an iOS app, in addition to the beta launch of its API.
The API will “offer superior image quality at a lower cost compared to other models,” the corporate claimed in a follow-up tweet. Ideogram is at the moment charging between .01 and .08 cent per enter, relying on the mannequin used and performance.
For customers, Ideogram presents a spread of subscriptions. The free tier is surprisingly beneficiant, permitting you to generate round 40 pictures a day at no cost.
For $7/month, the Basic plan presents 400 precedence era credit a month and 100 sluggish credit per day, in addition to different advantages like full-quality picture downloads. For $16/month Plus grants 1,000 precedence credit and limitless sluggish credit per thirty days, and the $48/month Pro plan will increase that determine to 4,000 quick credit (round 12,000 pictures) per thirty days.