The Best Open-Source AI Image Model?

S1E115 - The Best Open-Source AI Image Model?

Published: June 5, 2026

Duration: 1:01:59

Ideogram shipped Ideogram 4.0, an open source image model that finally puts open weights on par with the closed frontier for professional work, with dense text rendering. Anthropic published a paper showing Claude now writes more than 80 percent of its internal code, and we walked the graph that proves it. And Founders Fund launched a Mafia show filmed at the Tosca Cafe in San Francisco, and the marketing play behind it is the real story.


Sources:

1. Ideogram 4.0

https://x.com/ideogram_ai/status/2062202208700313872

2. Claude writes 80% of Anthropic's code (BBC)<...