Canva says small models beat slot-machine design

Name: Canva says small models beat slot-machine design
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Description: Canva built Craft to plan layouts first, edit structually, then render pixels for faster iteration.

Canva built Craft to plan layouts first, edit structually, then render pixels for faster iteration.

By StartupHub.ai Staff, reviewed by Daniel Singer, Editor

Nov 12, 20261 min read

Before Magic Layers, flat image tools forced designers to reroll a whole picture to move one object.

Stefano Corazza, head of AI research at Canva, told The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington that Craft plans a scene graph before rendering pixels.

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Corazza said AI will reach "70%, 80%, they are will never get to 100%," so Canva built for fast human iteration.

Corazza said Canva runs about 100 AI models in production as of the interview and claims Craft is 40 times cheaper than frontier design models.

Canva says Canva Craft is available to all Canva users today with accurate text rendering.

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TopicsCanva Canva Craft Canva Brush Stefano Corazza Sam Charrington Magic Layers

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