Canva launches image generation model called Craft

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 22 Oct, 23:08 · Archive

Design platform Canva has released its first image generation model, Canva Craft, to compete with tools from Google, OpenAI and other companies.

Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, Canva Craft, to compete with image generators from OpenAI, Google, ByteDance and Meta. The model is now available to all users on Canva's platform through the Dream Lab tab.

Canva Craft uses a two-stage system. First, it interprets user prompts and creates a plan detailing spatial relationships, scale, visual hierarchy and text information. Second, it generates images at up to 2K resolution in over 30 different aspect ratios. This approach allows the model to generate images with accurate object details and legible text, and users can make precise edits to specific parts of an image without changing other areas.

Canva trained Craft using millions of human-designed templates from its library, including posters, social media posts, presentations and infographics. The model ranks fourth on Design Arena's leaderboard for AI image generation models, behind three versions of OpenAI's GPT-Image models. The company plans to make Craft available through chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini via its Model Context Protocol, and will release faster versions called Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast.

How it is being reported

• Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating themCanva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an […]The Verge · 22 Oct, 22:51
• Canva releases its first image generation modelCanva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.TechCrunch · 22 Oct, 20:00

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