🎨 Fal Releases Optimized Ideogram 4 Versions: Instant and Fast
New checkpoints based on ideogram-4-fp8 use timestep distillation, which allows for the removal of CFG and drastically accelerates generation.
🌍 Optimization enables sub-second generation without quality loss, which is critical for scalable APIs. The transition to specialized quantized weights sets a new standard for efficiency in heavy T2I models.
👤 Images can now be generated almost instantaneously. When running locally via Diffusers, a structured JSON prompt format must be used.
Source 1: https://huggingface.co/fal/ideogram-v4-instant Source 2: https://huggingface.co/fal/ideogram-v4-fast