Canva AI 2.0 brings vibe design to the platform, letting you generate full designs from a text prompt

Google recently launched an AI tool for creating designs from descriptions. Now, Canva is going down a similar route. The company has announced Canva AI 2.0, a more powerful version of its AI assistant that it claims will fundamentally change how people think about design work.

Canva AI 2.0 leans into the "vibe coding" idea but applies it to graphic design, letting users create fully editable designs from text prompts. Instead of starting with a blank canvas and building everything manually in a linear fashion, you just describe what you want, and the assistant calls the required tools and generates a few options to choose from.

Whatever it generates is a layered, editable output that can be refined with manual tools or by continuing to chat with the assistant. Every visual element it generates sits on its own layer, giving you the flexibility to tweak anything individually. You can also generate content across multiple formats in one go, perfect for anyone running multi-channel campaigns.

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Canva has also built persistent memory into the tool, meaning the more you use Canva AI, the better it gets at understanding your personal taste and style. It also maintains a long enough context window to stay coherent all the way through to a final design. Beyond individual assets, Canva AI 2.0 can make changes across an entire project at once, or focus on a single element if that is all you need.

The company is also adding integrations with Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Zoom. This allows you to generate meeting summaries, turn customer emails into personalized sales pitches, or build a company newsletter straight from Slack activity. A web research skill is coming as well, letting the assistant browse the internet to gather information and complete tasks on your behalf.

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Canva AI 2.0 is available today as a research preview, with early access for the first 1 million visitors. It will roll out to more users in the coming weeks. The AI features are still part of Canva's free plan, though a new AI Pass add-on is coming for users who need higher rate limits.