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Canva releases its first image generation model

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Canva is developing two cost-efficient versions of its image model, named Craftfast and Craft-ultrafast.

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techcrunch.comOct 22, 2026By Ivan Mehta

Canva releases its first image generation model

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Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete with same category of models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta. The company said its model works in two stages. In the first stage, it interprets users’ prompts and creates a plan with details like spatial relationships of elements, relative scale, visual hierarchy, and information for text generation. In the second stage, its model generates an image of up to 2K resolution in possible 30 different aspect ratios for various platforms. Canva said that this approach allows it to create images with accurate details of objects and legible text. Plus, users would be able to make precise edits without changing other parts of the image. The company noted that rather than using photographs, it used design to train this model using human-designed templates from Canva’s library, including posters, social posts, presentations, infographics, menus, and typography-rich layouts. That means images generated with Canva Craft could be converted into layered designs using Canva Magic, the company’s image-to-design transformer. Last year, the platform released its own model that understands designs and layers. Canva Craft is available on the company’s platform to all users, who can access the model from the Dream Lab tab. The model will also be available...

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