Overview
- Canva AI 2.0, which opened in a research preview Thursday, is limited to the first million sign-ups with wider access promised in the coming weeks.
- The assistant turns a plain-language brief into layered, fully editable designs, selects the right tools on its own, and uses object-level edits so one change does not rewrite the whole layout.
- New connectors to Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Zoom and Notion let the bot read permitted emails, chats, files and meetings, with web research and a scheduler that only creates drafts for user review.
- Canva says its models now run faster and cheaper, citing Lucid Origin at 5x faster and 30x cheaper and its image-to-video model at 7x faster and 17x cheaper than frontier options, though these are company-reported figures.
- Developer updates include Code 2.0 with HTML import and text-prompted spreadsheets, while the business push highlights 265 million monthly users, 31 million paid subscribers and about $4 billion in annualized revenue as Adobe and Figma roll out similar agents and Canva signals an IPO next year.