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Canva AI 2.0 Launches With New Features And Conversational AI

At its Create conference in Los Angeles, Canva unveiled "Canva AI 2.0," a new platform shifting the company from a design tool into an AI-first ecosystem with agentic capabilities.
Co-Founders Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams re-architected the platform to evolve from a design platform with AI services to an AI platform with design tools, enabling agentic automation.
Integrating with Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Zoom, the new orchestration layer selects tools to execute tasks like scheduling social content batches automatically in the background.
With 265 million users, Canva claims its new models are up to 7 times faster and 30 times cheaper than comparable alternatives, positioning it against rivals Adobe and Figma.
Obrecht described the current release as an "absolute early adopter stage," with access expanding progressively to more users over the coming weeks as Canva prepares for a next-year IPO.

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