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Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image generation model

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Canva's AI research lab was ranked the world's second most advanced AI lab for image generation based on DesignArena rankings.

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Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image generation model left Canva has unveiled Canva Craft, its first image-generation foundation model developed and trained from scratch by its in-house AI research unit, as the design platform seeks to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities. Photo: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-craft/ https://th-i.thgim.com/public/news/national/dnak7n/article71626007.ece/alternates/FREE_1200/CanvaCraft.jpg Canva Craft generates images at up to 2K resolution, supports text in 55 languages and is available to users globally; company says it ranked fourth among image-generation models on DesignArena at launch Chennai Canva has unveiled Canva Craft, its first image-generation foundation model developed and trained from scratch by its in-house AI research unit, as the design platform seeks to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities. The company said Craft debuted as the fourth most advanced image-generation model on DesignArena, a crowdsourced platform for evaluating AI design models. It claimed the launch made Canva Research the world's second most advanced AI lab for image generation, based on the platform's rankings. Available globally through Canva, Craft generates images at resolutions of up to 2K across more than 30 aspect ratios. It is designed to produce images with accurate text rendering, precise object...

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