Canva is restructuring 1,271 jobs, or 22% of its workforce, after its growth slowed for the first time in 10 years. AI tools are making content creation easier than ever, and the popular design platform is now trying to keep up while its own AI costs rise.

Canva is restructuring 22% of its workforce as the design platform deals with slowing growth for the first time in a decade and rising AI costs. With tools like ChatGPT and Gemini making content creation easier, here’s what the shakeup could mean for creators and small business owners.

Canva announced job cuts and a structural overhaul that will impact more than one-fifth of the workforce, after the Sydney-based tech firm’s growth slowed for the first time in a decade

Canva Brush has been launched! This is a vision model built for design, and is fantastic at analyzing your creations before adjusting and improving. Great for remixing existing styles consistently. A quick demo:

Canva just built its own image model, and it plans the layout before rendering the picture. Called Craft, it first works out where elements belong, their relative size, visual hierarchy and text. A separate model then renders the image. Canva trained it from scratch using data that includes millions of human-made templates, then refined it with feedback from professional designers. Craft generates images at up to 2K resolution across more than 30 aspect ratios. Its outputs can also pass through Magic Layers, which turns generated images into editable design elements. That means you can keep working on individual parts instead of regenerating the whole image. Available now globally in Canva's Dream Lab and through a public API.

Canva Craft, the first ever image model by @canva, takes the #4# spot on DesignArena's Image leaderboard. This makes Canva the #2# Image Lab after @OpenAI! Notably, it wins most often on photorealistic product and object shots, setting up studio-style lighting and detailed material textures on a single hero object. It also ranks #1# on the Portrait and Landscape subcategories. Congrats to the @canva team on the launch!