Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model

Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model, which it says can compete with comparable models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta. Trained from scratch by Canva Research mainly on millions of design templates, Craft plans composition, proportions and text before generating images at up to 2K resolution across more than 30 aspect ratios, renders text in 55 languages, and supports editable layers via Magic Layers. Canva says Craft placed fourth overall and first in portraits and landscapes on DesignArena, and it is available to all users through Dream Lab and the public API, with MCP integration for chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini planned for later.