{
  "id": 16206972,
  "title": "Canva launches Craft — its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/canva-launches-craft-its-first-image-generation-model-trained-on",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-23T17:05:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/canva-launches-craft-its-first-image-generation-model-trained-on-human-designed-templates"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Canva has unveiled its first AI image generation model, named Craft, which is trained on existing templates to understand layers and composition. As Canva's internal research division, Canva Research, is now the second-highest performing AI lab in image generation models, behind only OpenAI, the launch of Craft marks a significant milestone for the company. Craft debuted at number four on DesignArena's leaderboard, outperforming several GPT, Grok, and Gemini models, including Nano Banana 2.1.1. The model's success can be attributed to its training on millions of human-made templates from Canva's library, enabling it to grasp layout, visual hierarchy, and typography better than models trained on flat images. Craft can generate people, portraits, landscapes, nature, and abstract designs and patterns, with the highest performance in these categories. Canva's investment in its internal lab has doubled over the past year, and Craft is currently available via an API for developers to integrate into other platforms.",
  "summary": "Canva Craft has ranked fourth overall and 1st/2nd across many image generation categories – and this is just the first model.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Canva releases its first image generation model",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model",
        "published": "2026-10-22T19:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}