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HOME/PEOPLE/MOHAMMAD NOROUZI
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Mohammad Norouzi

ROLE CEOAT IDEOGRAMMENTIONS 8LAST SEEN JUNE 15, 2026
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Founder and CEO of Ideogram; former Google researcher.

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product·AI + a16z·JUNE 15, 2026

We are known for really stylized typography, for logo, T-shirt design, graphic design in general... With this model, despite the fact that it's very tiny, the text generation is very, very accurate.

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mention·AI + a16z·JUNE 15, 2026

OpenAI does it. Google does it. But then they don't give you the actual input to the model.

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mention·AI + a16z·JUNE 15, 2026

I used to work for Google. I don't think even if we raise 10x the amount we've raised so far, we can beat Google in terms of the number of chips that we can dedicate to each model training.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 15, 2026

By releasing the weights, we're actually extending ourselves and working with inference providers, working more directly with large enterprise.

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product·The a16z Show·JUNE 15, 2026

Ideogram's open-weight model release (9.3 billion parameters), known for superior typography, text rendering, graphic design control, and JSON-structured prompting.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 15, 2026

This is just the first release. You're just testing the waters, figuring out how to work with Hugging Face and the open source community, Comfy UI, etc.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 15, 2026

Everybody else does it too. OpenAI does it. Google does it. But then they don't give you the actual input to the model.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 15, 2026

can you say, oh, is this Andreessen Horowitz or this is Sequoia? Most people will not be able to immediately look at the text and say.

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