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.
The news comes as Canva doubles down on its investment in the UAE, where over 58 million designs were created on Canva alone last year, with around one in eight internet users already using the platform.
”The UAE has become one of Canva’s fastest growing markets, and continues to adopt Canva AI at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world. Today’s announcements reflect how seriously we’re investing in this region. Canva AI 2.0 gives our users here access to the most powerful creative platform we’ve ever built, and speaks directly to how people across the region actually work. This is just the beginning of what we’re building here,” says Ahmad Iqbal, MENAP General Manager, Canva.
Canva AI 2.0: 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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 learns from your work and adapts to you and your team’s preferences and goals, becoming more helpful with every use. Personalise it with your existing designs to generate a custom memory library and an “About Me” profile that continuously tailors your experience.
- Sheets AI: Smarter Spreadsheets Without the Hassle. Describe what you need and Canva AI 2.0 generates a fully structured, beautifully-designed sheet, populated with real data and research. From budget trackers to project timelines, content calendars to research tables, your sheet arrives structured, designed, and with all of the right data.
Intelligent new workflows
From a quick design to a full campaign, Canva AI 2.0 brings everything together in one place, unifying tools, workflows, and outputs to supercharge everyday work, making Canva the place where teams start and end their day.
- Connectors: All Your Work, In One Place. Instead of being scattered across dozens of apps, Canva AI brings everything together, so you have everything you need to create in one place. Connect tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar, and Canva AI can draw on your conversations, content, and schedule to create exactly what you need. Generate meeting summaries from Zoom transcripts, turn customer emails into personalised sales pitches, or create company newsletters based on activity across Slack. Initial connectors include Slack, Notion, Zoom, HubSpot, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar, with more to come.
- Scheduling: Work On Autopilot. Set tasks once, and Canva AI runs them automatically in the background, even while you’re offline. Generate a full batch of social content every Friday, tailored for every channel and translated into the top ten languages spoken in the United States. Or have Canva AI scan your emails each morning and create briefing documents for your upcoming meetings based on your calendar. The work gets done in the background, ready when you log in, compressing hours of effort into seconds.
- Web Research: Insights, Built In. Web Research brings insights directly into your work. Run research on demand or schedule it in the background, and Canva AI gathers and structures information from across the web. From business proposals to market exploration, everything is delivered into your design as structured, editable content, ready to refine and share.
- Brand Intelligence: On Brand By Default. Brand Intelligence ensures every design starts and remains on-brand. Just connect your data or describe what you need, and Canva AI automatically applies your fonts, colours, and style to every design. You can also instantly update existing work by asking Canva AI to apply your latest brand, turning hours of manual updates into a single step done in seconds.
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Canva Code 2.0 with HTML Importing: Describe any interactive idea and Canva AI builds a complete, responsive experience, structured, interactive, and designed to work across every device.
Now with HTML importing, Canva unlocks one of the fastest-growing AI formats. Instead of regenerating code for every change, you can bring any HTML file or AI-generated experience into Canva and edit it with Canva’s visual editor, no rebuilds required. From there, everything happens in one place. Add forms that collect responses in Canva Sheets, drop interactive elements into presentations, or publish to your own domain with SSO protection.
Starting April 16, Canva AI will also launched a research preview, rolling out to the first one million people who discover it on the Canva homepage. From there, access will expand progressively to more users over the weeks ahead.
Canva continues to advance presence across UAE
Canva’s momentum in the UAE has accelerated rapidly. In the UAE alone, more than 54 million designs were created on Canva in 2025, with around one in eight internet users already using the platform.
Earlier this year, Canva announced it will establish its regional headquarters in Dubai, following an agreement with Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy signed at the World Governments Summit 2026. The partnership is designed to support more than 250,000 SMEs and individuals in the digital sector over the next five years. The agreement was signed in the presence of H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, reflecting the alignment between Canva’s regional expansion and the UAE’s national AI agenda.
In education, Canva signed a Higher Education MoU with UAE universities in late 2025, extending Canva for Education to students and faculty across the country, followed by a partnership with GEMS to bring Canva’s tools into one of the region’s largest school networks.
Today’s launch of Canva AI 2.0 builds on this foundation, giving UAE creators, educators, and businesses access to the most powerful version of Canva yet.
