At Canva Create today, the company is making its biggest push yet into the agentic design field with the release of the research preview of Canva AI 2.0. Here’s what’s new.
Canva AI 2.0 expands beyond design
With the introduction of Canva AI 2.0, the platform is launching a unified conversational interface for design, automation, and content creation, based on the company’s Proteus, Lucid Origin, and I2V generative image and video models, which are “up to 7x faster and 30x cheaper than comparable frontier alternatives.”
In practice, today’s news means users can now use natural language-based prompts to describe what they need, while Canva’s new agentic system generates designs and handles the tools and workflows needed to create, edit, automate, and even publish work across the platform.
Here’s Canva on the news:
Powered by Canva’s frontier AI lab and years of investment in foundation models for design, Canva AI 2.0 transforms Canva into a conversational, agentic platform where teams can go from idea to execution in one place. The result is a powerful creative partner across the entire process, from the spark of an idea to the final output.
Canva AI 2.0 combines a new architecture layer with workflow tools that extend beyond design generation into research, automation, and task management.
The architecture layer
The architecture layer powers Canva’s core AI experience, with features including, according to the company:
- Conversational Design: Describe an idea, goal, or rough structure, and Canva AI generates a fully editable design with structure, brand, and layout from the start.
- Agentic Orchestration: Describe a goal, share a rough sketch, or provide a brief, and a new orchestration layer understands your intent, selects the right tools, and coordinates them to create everything you need, in every format.
- Object-Based Intelligence: Ask Canva AI to change something, and only that changes. Swap an image, adjust a headline, or refine a font without affecting anything else. Teams can jump in to collaborate, comment, and iterate as the work evolves.
- Living Memory: Canva AI learns from your work, becoming more helpful with every use. Personalise it with your existing designs to generate a custom memory library and an “About Me” profile that continuously tailors your experience.
Workflow features
On top of the architecture layer, Canva AI 2.0 also introduces workflow features aimed at making the platform more useful for planning, collaboration, and day to day work, beyond the design process itself. These include:
- Connectors: Canva AI can now generate summaries from Zoom transcripts, turn customer emails into personalised sales pitches, or create company newsletters based on activity across Slack. Initial connectors include Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar, with more to come.
- Scheduling: Canva AI can run scheduled tasks automatically in the background, even while you’re offline. For instance, it can generate a full batch of social content every Friday, or scan your emails each morning, and create briefing documents for upcoming meetings based on calendar events.
- Web Research: Run research on demand, or schedule it, and Canva AI will gather and organize information from across the web, then deliver it into your design as structured, editable content ready to refine and share.
- Canva Code 2.0: Now with HTML Importing, describe any interactive idea, and Canva AI builds a complete, responsive experience, structured, interactive, and designed to work across every device.
Availability
Canva AI 2.0 launches today as a research preview, available to the first million users to join in from the Canva homepage. The company says “access will expand progressively to more users
over the coming weeks.”
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