Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Google DeepMind
image generationfamily

Imagen

Google text-to-image series, now described as discontinued; Imagen 4 API IDs shut down 17 Aug 2026.

Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMindUK / USA
Example image generated by Imagen: a macro shot of a colourful spider on a dew-covered web, from the Google DeepMind Imagen page.
Levelfamily
Classimage generation
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Releasednot in the notes
Opennessunknown
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusdeprecated

Lineage

Google DeepMindImagen 3 belongs to this familyimage generation14 May 2024
Google DeepMindImagen 4 belongs to this familyimage generation
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Text-to-image foundation models (diffusion and flow transformers)produced by

Identity

Developer
Google DeepMind
Family
not in the notes
Released
– sources
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
not in the notes
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Imagen (text-to-image model) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagen_(text-to-image_model)
  2. Google Imagen 4 API shutdown date passed on August 17, 2026 | Kingy AI kingy.ai https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/google-will-shut-down-three-imagen-4-api-models-august-17/
  3. Gemini Image – Nano Banana , Google DeepMind deepmind.google https://deepmind.google/models/imagen/
  4. Adobe Firefly - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Firefly

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Imagen", https://aurion.semai.id/models/google-deepmind-imagen/, records of October 2026.