Craft is Canva’s first publicly available AI image generation model
It was trained on existing templates so it understands layers
Developers can access the model via an API
Canva has launched its first-ever publicly available AI image generation model, and it’s already proving to be hugely successful. Looking to take on the likes of industry giants such as OpenAI and Google, ‘Craft’, its image generating model, debuted at number four on DesignArena’s leaderboard, falling short of three leaders from OpenAI but coming in better than a number of other GPT, Grok and Gemini models – including Nano Banana 2. 1. With such high performance, Canva is proudly boasting that Canva Research, its internal research division, is now the second-highest performing AI lab in terms of image generation models behind OpenAI, which is a big deal. Canva Craft
The launch follows significant investment from the company into its own internal lab, which has tripled in size over the past year. But besides placing fourth overall for image generation, Canva Craft actually came in first place of 87 models for people and portraits, first of 85 in landscapes and nature, and second for abstract designs and patterns…