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Canva launches Craft image model that plans designs first

Original title: Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them

The Verge · AIby Emma Roth ()2 min read1 · 1 read
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Craft is available globally in Dream Lab, outputs up to 2K across more than 30 aspect ratios, and ranks fourth on Design Arena.

Canva released Canva Craft, an image model that plans a design before generating it. The company says the two-stage system improves legible text and object placement for marketing, scenes, and digital art. Craft was trained on millions of human-made templates and is available to all users; faster variants and Model Context Protocol access are planned.

Unconfirmed: Precision and safety claims come from Canva; the fourth-place ranking is a crowdsourced Design Arena result.

Key facts
  • Craft generates images at up to 2K and in more than 30 aspect ratios.
  • Canva says it trained Craft on millions of human-made templates.
  • Design Arena ranks Craft fourth behind three OpenAI image models.
  • Users open it from the three-dot menu by selecting Dream Lab.
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2 min read at theverge.com

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an announcement on Thursday.

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