Canva AI 2.0 transforms platform into agentic workspace

Canva unveiled Canva AI 2.0 at its Create event in Los Angeles, marking what the company calls its biggest shift since its 2013 launch. The overhaul recasts the visual design platform as a conversational, agentic system built around four core capabilities: Conversational Design, Agentic Orchestration, Object-Based Intelligence and Living Memory. New workflow features connect Canva to Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail and Google tools, while proprietary AI models claim to be up to seven times faster and 30 times cheaper than frontier alternatives. The update also includes Sheets AI, Canva Code 2.0 and support for importing artifacts from outside AI tools. It launches today as a research preview, rolling out first to one million users.