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Imagen 4

Imagen 4 is Google's standard-tier image generation model, the default production choice in the Imagen 4 family, balancing photorealistic quality with practical generation speed for commercial photography, scene generation, and everyday visual asset pipelines.

Image Gen
index.ts
import { experimental_generateImage as generateImage } from 'ai';
const result = await generateImage({
model: 'google/imagen-4.0-generate-001',
prompt: 'A red balloon on a wooden table.'
});

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