Canva releases Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model

Canva has spent years helping people make slick graphics without touching Photoshop. Now it wants to make the pictures too. The design platform has released Canva Craft, its first image generation model. The model was developed by Canva’s own research team, and it enters a category already crowded with offerings from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta. How Canva Craft works Canva says the model operates in two stages. The first is less about pixels and more about planning. When a user types a prompt, Canva Craft first interprets the request. It then builds a plan before generating anything visual. That plan covers several design fundamentals. According to the company, it maps out spatial relationships between elements, their relative scale, and the visual hierarchy of the composition. The plan also includes information used for generating text inside the image. The road to Canva Craft Canva Craft does not arrive in a vacuum. The company has been steadily building out its AI stack around what it calls the Canva Design Model. That model was built to produce editable, layered outputs rather than flat images. It powers features such as Magic Layers and Canva AI 2.0. The Canva AI 2.0 p...