# Canva launches Craft, its first in-house AI image model, with design planning

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

- Source: The Verge · AI
- Published: 2026-10-22T21:51:25.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/e57pnlornvt30fahb60lz04yu
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1017151/canva-craft-in-house-ai-model

## Summary

Canva has launched Craft, its first in-house AI image generation model, which uses a two-stage architecture to plan a design before generating an image. Craft generates images up to 2K resolution in more than 30 aspect ratios and is available now to all users globally through Canva's Dream Lab. It ranks fourth on Design Arena's leaderboard, behind three OpenAI models, and Canva plans to let AI agents connect to it through the Model Context Protocol.