Justine Moore

It's super impressive, honestly, reaching the level of things like nano banana or GPT image with an open source model.

Why did you think that was important?

So today we're excited to have Mohamed, CEO and founder of Ideagram, a Toronto-based generative AI company that just released their first open weights image model.

Congrats on the huge release.

We're really excited to talk through something that everyone has been buzzing about, which is the fact that the model is open weights.

The previous Ideagram models have been closed source, so would love to hear how you made the call to make it open this time.

Amazing.

And one of the other things I immediately noticed about the model was how you can render super long texts, like paragraphs of texts completely accurately, which you either give the model in the prompt or you ask the model to come up with something and it does it really well.

And it's super impressive, honestly, reaching the level of things like nano banana or GPT image with an open source model.

Was that something you guys really focused on?

And sort of why did you think that was important?

No, no.

They always are.

Awesome.

So it sounds like a lot of it is basically taking often a relatively simple prompt that someone puts into the model and then translating it on the back end with the magic prompt and into JSON so that the model can make something probably more detailed and interesting than the person with the short prompt may have even imagined.

Amazing.

And we've been talking about some of the things you've focused on with this model.

Obviously, there's always trade-offs in model training in terms of what you want the model to be really amazing at and what you focus on.

Would love to hear what you focused on for this release.

And also, do you consider more capability, like we want to be the top for this specific prompt adherence or something like that?