Canva releases Canva Craft, its first image generation model
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- The DecoderNewsPickCanva launches Craft, its first in-house image generation model
AICanva has released Craft, its first in-house image generation model, which the company says can compete with models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta. Canva says its research lab trained Craft from scratch mainly on millions of design templates, generating images up to 2K across more than 30 aspect ratios and rendering text in 55 languages. Craft is available to all users through Dream Lab and the public API, with MCP integration for chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini planned later.
- The Verge · AINewsCanva launches Craft, its first in-house AI image model, with design planning
AICanva 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.
Rohan PaulXCanva launches Craft, its first image model, ranked second on DesignArenaAICanva has launched Craft, its first in-house frontier image model, which ranks second among labs on the DesignArena image leaderboard behind OpenAI. Craft uses a planner that writes out the composition, including elements, positions, sizes and display text, before a renderer paints it at up to 2K across more than 30 aspect ratios. According to the post, changing one element during revision leaves the rest of the image unchanged.
elvisXCanva launches Craft, its first image model built for designAICanva Research has released Craft, its first frontier image model built specifically for design, which plans composition before rendering. Canva says Craft ranks as the second most advanced image generation model on Design Arena's global leaderboard. The post's author says his company uses Canva and is excited to see where the model goes.
SantiagoXCanva launches Craft, a design-specific image generation modelAICanva launches Craft, its first frontier model built specifically for design, which ranks as the second most advanced image generation model on Design Arena's global leaderboard. Users prompt Craft with subject, style, layout, text, and product images, then a planner drafts the composition, which users can edit. The platform renders the image and converts it into editable layers.
DesignArenaOfficialCanva Craft debuts at #4 on DesignArena's Image leaderboardAICanva's first image model, Canva Craft, ranks #4 on DesignArena's Image leaderboard, making Canva the second-highest Image Lab behind OpenAI. The model wins most often on photorealistic product and object shots with studio-style lighting and detailed material textures, and ranks #1 in the Portrait and Landscape subcategories.
- DesignArenaOfficialCanva Craft debuts at #4 on DesignArena's Image leaderboard
AICanva's first image model, Canva Craft, ranks #4 on DesignArena's Image leaderboard, making Canva the second-highest Image Lab behind OpenAI. The model wins most often on photorealistic product and object shots with studio-style lighting and detailed material textures, and ranks #1 in the Portrait and Landscape subcategories.
- TechCrunch · AINewsCanva releases Canva Craft, its first image generation model
AICanva released Canva Craft, its first image generation model, developed by its research team. The model plans layout and text first, then generates images up to 2K resolution in 30 aspect ratios, and it is available to all users and through the Canva API.