Canva launches an image model that plans the design before generation
CEO Melanie Perkins started Canva to make design easier for non-specialists. Craft applies that premise to image generation, trained on what Canva says are millions of human-made templates.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: The Verge
Why it matters
Canva is making its image model part of a broader design workflow, not just offering another prompt-to-picture tool. The test is whether planning and editability help users turn generated images into usable designs.

Canva launched its first in-house image-generation model, Craft, on Thursday, October 22nd, giving CEO and co-founder Melanie Perkins a new way to pursue the problem that started the business: making design work for people without specialist training.…
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