Overview
- Canva introduced Brush on Thursday, October 29, 2026, and made it available for supported edits to Canva Pro subscribers as a controlled rollout.
- Brush is a vision‑language model tuned for design that reads layouts, layers and visual style so it can follow natural‑language prompts to change one line of text or restyle many pages.
- The model uses an agentic edit loop that writes and runs code to change elements, inspects the live canvas, and refines results so outputs remain standard, editable Canva files.
- Canva says internal tests show Brush runs up to 69% faster on general editing tasks and cuts per‑edit cost by about 46% versus its prior agent, a move aimed at lowering operational costs at scale.
- Brush was trained on real design tasks plus anonymized user data and is the latest step in Canva’s strategy to build proprietary AI for design, a choice that may raise privacy questions as it expands access.