India April 17, 2026 – Canva, the world’s leading visual communication platform, today announced its most significant evolution since launching in 2013 with the introduction of Canva AI 2.0, ushering in a new era of AI-powered creation as the company transforms itself into the systemwhere work gets done.

Just over a decade ago, Canva ushered in a new generation of design, transforming complex, expensive desktop software into a simple, powerful, and interoperable platform in the browser. It replaced intimidating blank pages with millions of templates, and manual, pixel-by-pixel editing with intuitive drag-and-drop creation, becoming one of the most widely used platforms in the world, with more than a quarter of a billion people now using Canva every month. Today’s announcement, unveiled at the company’s flagship Canva Create event in Los Angeles, marks the beginning of the next era of creation.

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.

A Powerful New Architecture Layer

Canva AI 2.0 introduces a powerful new architecture layer that reimagines the entire design process, making it easier than ever to bring an idea to life. It marks Canva’s biggest shift since bringing design from complex desktop software into the browser.

Here’s what’s new:

• Conversational Design brings ideas to life from natural language prompts or dictation. Creation is no longer limited to a blank page or the perfect template. Just describe an idea, goal, or rough structure, and Canva AI generates a fully editable design with structure, brand, and layout from the start. Unlike traditional AI tools that produce a single output and stop there, Canva AI 2.0 stays with you throughout the entire creative process. It maintains context as your ideas evolve, helping you brainstorm, refine, and iterate at every step.

• Agentic Orchestration unlocks AI that finally works with you. Describe a goal, share a rough sketch, or provide a brief, and Canva AI brings it to life through a single conversation. Behind the scenes, a new orchestration layer brings together Canva’s full suite of tools to turn ideas into complete outcomes. It understands your intent, selects the right tools, and coordinates them to create everything you need, in every format. Ask it to “create a multi-channel campaign plan to launch our latest summer products,” and it will generate everything, ready to refine or publish.

• Object-Based Intelligence enables precise editing without starting over. Ask Canva AI to change something, and only that changes. Swap an image, adjust a headline, or refine a font without affecting anything else. Powered by Canva’s foundational Design Model, everything Canva AI 2.0

creates remains layered and fully editable, just as if it were built in the editor from scratch. Teams can jump in to collaborate, comment, and iterate as the work evolves.

• Living Memory gets smarter with you. With persistent memory, Canva AI understands how you work, keeping every project on brand, applying your style automatically, and evolving over time. It