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On October 22, Canva released its first image generation model, Canva Craft, which was trained from scratch by its internal lab Canva Research and is Canva's first foundation model. According to Unite.AI, Craft has been made available to Canva users worldwide through Dream Lab and to developers through a public API. The model uses a two-stage architecture: first a planning model parses the prompt and generates a composition plan, then a rendering model outputs the image, supporting up to 2K resolution and more than 30 aspect ratios, and can generate text in 55 languages. The Verge AI reported that the model was trained on millions of human templates in the platform's content library, and currently ranks fourth on the Design Arena image generation model leaderboard, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and GPT-Image-2. Canva also plans to let AI agents access the model through MCP, and will launch Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast versions. There are currently no subsequent development facts.
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Canva Releases Its In-House Image Model Canva Craft
On October 22, Canva released Canva Craft, the first foundation model trained from scratch by its internal lab Canva Research. It is now available to Canva users worldwide through Dream Lab and to developers via a public API. The model uses a two-stage architecture: first a planning model parses the prompt and generates a composition plan, then a rendering model outputs images at up to 2K resolution supporting more than 30 aspect ratios, and can generate text in 55 languages. Canva says Craft debuted fourth on DesignArena, and previews that two faster variants, Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast, are coming soon.
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Canva releases its first in-house image model, Canva Craft, which plans the design first and then generates the image
Canva has released its first in-house image generation model, Canva Craft, which uses a two-stage architecture: it plans the design first and then generates the image, supporting up to 2K resolution and more than 30 aspect ratios. The model was trained on millions of human-made templates in the platform's content library, and it currently ranks fourth on the Design Arena image generation model leaderboard, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and GPT-Image-2. Canva Craft is now available to all users worldwide and can be accessed from the three-dot option in the left-hand menu to enter Dream Lab; Canva also plans to let AI agents access the model via MCP and will launch Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast versions.
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Canva Releases Its First In-House Image Model, Craft
Canva has released its first in-house image model, Craft, trained from scratch by Canva Research and built specifically for design rather than photography. It can generate 2K images in any aspect ratio and supports editable output. Canva says it ranks fourth on DesignArena, behind only three OpenAI models: GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare, and GPT Image 2. Craft is now available to paid subscribers within the Canva app and to developers through a public API, with Canva MCP Server support coming soon; two variants, Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast, will also be released later.
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Canva launches its first image generation model, Canva Craft
Canva has launched its first image generation model, Canva Craft, developed by its in-house research team and benchmarked against similar models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta. The model works in two stages: it first generates a plan containing spatial relationships, relative proportions, visual hierarchy and text information, then outputs images at up to 2K resolution supporting about 30 aspect ratios, with an emphasis on accurate object details, clear text and precise local editing. The model is trained on human-designed works from Canva's template library rather than photos, and the generated results can be converted into layered designs via Canva Magic. It is now available to all users on the Dream Lab tab and will be integrated into third-party chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini through the Canva API and MCP.
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