GoKawiilCanva launches in-house AI image model Canva Craft for all users
Canva has released Canva Craft, its first proprietary AI image generation model, now available worldwide to all users. The company says the model uses a two-stage architecture that plans a design's layout before generating it, and was trained on Canva's own library, licensed data, and opted-in user data. Canva's head of AI research, Stefano Corazza, said the model mimics how human designers structure a composition.
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Building its own model in-house, following the acquisition of Leonardo.Ai, could let Canva control costs and generation speed rather than relying on third-party AI providers, according to Corazza. Early rankings on the DesignArena benchmark placing Canva Craft near the top among image models suggest it could become a serious competitor to offerings from OpenAI, Google and Microsoft in design-specific use cases.
- Canva Craft is Canva's first proprietary AI image model, now live globally for all users.
- It uses a two-stage architecture that plans layout before generating images, mimicking designer workflows.
- Canva Craft ranks fourth overall on the DesignArena benchmark, ahead of Google's Nano Banana and Microsoft's MAI-Image.
Source: cnet.com — Katelyn Chedraoui, 2026-10-26
Published there as: “Canva Chases AI Domination With a New AI Image Model for Designers”
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