Canva has announced its first AI coding tool, a voice-enabled AI feature, an AI-powered spreadsheet generator, and more as part of its all-new Visual Suite 2.0.
The design software company took the wraps off of its new AI-powered design and content creation offerings at its fourth Canva Create event held at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, United States, on Thursday, April 10.
“The slew of new products ushers in a new chapter of AI-powered design, seamless content creation, and powerful personalisation,” Canva said in a press release.
“From powerful visual spreadsheets to advanced data visualisation, conversational design, personalised content at scale, and revolutionary new ways to create interactive experiences, the announcement cements Canva’s role as the category leader in visual communication,” it added.
At Canva Create 2025, the company unveiled its voice-enabled, conversational AI tool called Canva AI. “From generating text, slides, and images to editing photos and resizing designs, it all happens with just a prompt or your voice,” the company said.
It is available on the Canva homepage, next to the Search option. Users also have the option to edit the AI-generated designs within Canva.
In response to a question by indianexpress.com on whether Canva AI-generated designs will carry digital watermarks, Cameron Adams, the chief product officer at Canva, confirmed that the AI-generated outputs will have embedded metadata in accordance with a technical standard widely adopted by the industry.
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Adams appeared to be referring to the C2PA standard that allows publishers, companies, and others to embed metadata in any media for verifying its origin and related information.
Other new AI-powered features
For starters, Canva now allows users to access Visual Suite features within one design template. “For the first time, everything from documents and presentations to websites can be built in a single design, in one unified format. This eliminates the need for separate tools, fragmented workflows, and disconnected files,” it said.
As part of Visual Suite 2.0, the company introduced Canva Code which can be used to generate landing pages for websites, calculator apps, interactive travel maps, custom widgets, educational quizzes, and more with no coding or external tools required, as per the company. These AI-generated software elements can be embedded in other Canva designs as well.
The company has also rolled out Canva Sheets built on top of its Magic Studio suite of AI tools.
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With features like Magic Insights, Canva Sheets users can select any data and ask questions about key patterns and takeaways. Users can also import data from Google Analytics, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Statista to Canva Sheets in order to simplify data-driven work.
Canva Sheets also has ‘Magic Studio at Scale’ built into it. This allows users to select a portion of the data in a spreadsheet and create, for instance, an AI-generated marketing campaign. In addition, Magic Charts allows users to create AI-generated infographics.
The company further said that it has upgraded its Photo Editor to include features such as AI-generated backgrounds and point-and-click, which allows users to modify selected elements using AI.
Canva’s AI tools are powered by their in-house foundational AI models. These AI models have been trained on datasets containing the creative designs of Canva users who have opted in to AI training.
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“Creators receive ongoing payments when their content powers published AI outputs and remain eligible for monthly royalties when they opt in to AI training,” the company said. So far, Canva said it has paid out millions in AI royalties to creators from its $200 million Creator Fund.