The AI prototype generation wars are heat up . Just as Google has give up its ownPixel Studio generator to calamitous results , AI startup Ideogramannounced Wednesday on X(formerly Twitter ) has announced the second version release of its product with the same name , Ideogram 2.0 .

In addition to increase its model ’s new originative capabilities , the company also enunciate it ’s roll out an iOS app , an API , and a optic search system . The announcement come aftera big workweek in AI image generation , with the launching ofGrok-2and a significantMidjourneyupdate .

infix Ideogram 2.0 — our most advanced textual matter - to - picture simulation , now uncommitted to all users for free .

Today ’s milepost launch also includes the release of the Ideogram iOS app , the beta version of the Ideogram API , and Ideogram Search .

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Ideogram 2.0enables users to generate images in one of five distinct styles : General , Realistic , Design , 3D , and Anime . General , which you’re able to see from the horse - sized duck fighting duck - sized horses below , will give you a basic illustration based on your prompting .

naturalistic style produces closemouthed to photographic - quality images , down to the right number of eyes and fingers , er , feathers .

Design offer improved textual matter rendering and allows users to overlie an persona with specific color dodge and pallet , make water it a utilitarian tool in rapidly ingeminate logotype and graphics .

3D style will rejoin , you guessed it , a 3-D deliver image that , in this duck ’s case , somehow depend more lifelike than the Realistic flair , while Anime does exactly what you suppose it does .

The company also announced the acquittance of its Ideogram Search engine , which will enable users to more efficiently hunting for divine guidance amid Ideogram ’s billion - plus public image , an Io app , as well as the beta release of its API .

The API will “ declare oneself superior image timbre at a low-toned cost compared to other models , ” the company claimedin a travel along - up tweet . Ideogram is currently charging between .01 and .08 cent per input , depending on the model used and function .

For consumer , Ideogram volunteer a range of subscriptions . The free tier is astonishingly generous , permit you to bring forth around 40 image a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. at no guardianship .

For $ 7 / month , the Basic plan offers 400 priority coevals credits a month and 100 slow credit entry per day , as well as other benefits like full - quality mental image downloads . For $ 16 / month Plus grants 1,000 precedence credits and outright slow credit per calendar month , and the $ 48 / calendar month Pro plan increase that work out to 4,000 fast citation ( around 12,000 paradigm ) per calendar month .