Canva Boosts AI with Dream Lab and Major Visual Suite Upgrades

Canva, the leading all-in-one visual communication platform, has unveiled a new set of tools and upgrades, including the launch of Dream Lab, a generative AI feature powered by Leonardo.Ai. This comes as Canva reaches a significant milestone—over 200 million monthly active users worldwide and $2.5 billion in annual revenue. Canva's suite of new features is designed to boost creativity and productivity across its platform, catering to a rapidly growing demand for workplace solutions.

Dream Lab: Powering Creative Possibilities with AI

Dream Lab, a newly introduced tool within Canva's platform, uses Leonardo.Ai’s cutting-edge technology to allow users to create stunning visualizations from simple text prompts. The tool empowers anyone, regardless of design experience, to generate high-quality images in various styles, including 3D renders and illustrations. Dream Lab also allows users to:

• Generate multiple variations of images in over 15 styles

• Use existing images as references for tailored outputs, opening up new possibilities, such as creating stock photos tailored to your company’s unique style

• Create complex, multi-subject visuals and photorealistic portraits

By leveraging the advanced Phoenix model from Leonardo.Ai, Dream Lab enables teams across industries to rapidly turn ideas into visuals, revolutionizing the design process.

Canva’s Acquisition of Leonardo.Ai: Enhancing AI Capabilities

A key driver behind Canva's latest innovations is its acquisition of Leonardo.Ai, a leading generative AI platform known for its cutting-edge image creation technology. This acquisition has significantly bolstered Canva’s AI capabilities, enabling the introduction of advanced tools like Dream Lab.

Leonardo.Ai’s technology, particularly its Phoenix foundational model, powers Canva’s AI-driven features, allowing users to generate highly detailed, custom visuals from simple text prompts. The integration of Leonardo.Ai into Canva's platform unlocks new creative possibilities, offering professionals across industries—from content creators to marketers—greater control and precision in their design work.

Canva partnered with Leonardo.Ai to deliver even more advanced AI tools to creative professionals. Millions of users, including content creators, designers, architects, and film directors, rely on Leonardo.Ai for its exceptional quality and flexibility. Dream Lab enhances the precision of visuals generated through Canva’s easy-to-use Magic Studio. Additionally, Canva remains committed to safe and responsible AI use, with Dream Lab protected by Canva Shield, the company’s industry-leading framework for AI trust and safety.

Major Upgrades to Canva’s Visual Suite

In addition to Dream Lab, Canva has announced a slew of new features aimed at improving collaboration and content creation for professionals. These include:

• Smarter Whiteboards: AI-powered tools for organizing and summarizing ideas, along with interactive features for real-time collaboration.

• Enhanced Magic Write: Advanced text generation capabilities with contextual accuracy and one-click commands for refining content.

• Interactive Charts for Storytelling: New chart types like radar, hierarchy, and statistical charts for more dynamic presentations. Additionally, page numbers can be automatically added with a single click.

• AI-Driven Videos: Automatic video captions and advanced animation effects that save time and boost engagement, while adhering to brand guidelines.

• Introducing Custom Mockups: Instantly transform photos into professional, on-brand mockup templates with just one click.

• Debuting Polls and Quizzes: Easily create customizable polls and quizzes directly within the editor.

• Powerful Integrations: Seamlessly access and collaborate on Canva designs within Google Workspace, including Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, and more.

These updates enhance Canva's existing Visual Suite, which includes tools for creating documents, whiteboards, websites, videos, and presentations. In just two years, Canva’s Visual Suite has seen tremendous usage, with over 2.5 billion presentations and 500 million documents created.

Explosive Growth: 200M Users and $2.5B in Revenue

As Canva’s user base continues to grow, the platform is also seeing increased adoption among workplaces and large organizations. Leading companies, including the NYSE, Atlassian, HP, Snowflake, DHL Express, and Docusign, are utilizing Canva Enterprise to streamline content creation and scale their branding efforts. Over 30 billion designs have been created on Canva to date, with the platform now handling more than 300 new designs every second.

Melanie Perkins, Canva’s Co-Founder and CEO, commented on the company’s impressive growth: “We’re incredibly excited to now be empowering more than 200 million people in nearly every country across the globe. From over 95% of the Fortune 500 to millions of small businesses, classrooms, and nonprofits, it’s certainly an exciting milestone.”

Expanded Content Library and Partnerships

To support its growing user base, Canva has also expanded its content library, adding assets from major content providers like Artlist and pocstock. This integration brings more premium music, video assets, and diverse stock photography to Canva users, ensuring access to top-quality materials for every project.

• Artlist Integration: Access to high-quality video and music assets from top industry artists.

• Pocstock Collaboration: A diverse photo collection of more than 150,000 photos empowering Canva’s paid users to create more inclusive content.

Tailored Work Kits for Specific Audiences

Canva is expanding its Work Kits, providing ready-made templates and resources for small businesses, teachers, and students. These tailored kits offer easy-to-use tools to support business projects, lesson planning, sales, marketing, HR and more.

• Work Kits for Small Businesses: Generalist Work Kits offering playbooks, customizable templates, organizational tools, and apps designed to support multiple facets of business operations.

• Work Kits for Teachers: A broad selection of education-focused templates and resources to tackle challenges, refresh lesson plans, manage workloads, and inspire creativity rooted in real-world experiences.

• Work Kits for Students: Templates, tips, and tools aimed at improving homework, organizing studies, and enhancing presentations for extracurricular activities.

Looking Ahead

Canva’s latest advancements in AI-powered tools and its continually expanding Visual Suite position the platform as a leader in workplace design and collaboration. With the introduction of Dream Lab and new interactive features, Canva is transforming the way people create and communicate visually. As more industries adopt Canva’s tools, the company shows no signs of slowing down as it continues to innovate and shape the future of visual communication.