Canva ships Craft while Microsoft previews more precise image editing
Canva’s design-oriented image model is available in its product and API; Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.7 currently offers an editing preview, with text-to-image generation still to come.
Canva Craft is available inside Canva and through an image-generation API announced on October 22.
Canva describes a planning stage before rendering, intended to improve composition, typography and layout for design work, with output up to 2K. Those are product specifications and vendor claims about the process, rather than a guarantee that generated text or brand details will be correct. [1][2]
The API has a concrete integration boundary. Canva’s developer announcement identifies the Craft model, says generation consumes the user’s AI credits and places the Connect API integration in preview. Its generation reference also specifies that result URLs expire after 24 hours, with an option to add the result as a Canva asset. A production workflow should deliberately preserve the chosen output instead of treating a temporary URL as permanent storage. [2][3]
Microsoft’s October 27 MAI-Image-2.7 announcement concerns image editing. The preview is accessible through MAI Playground and evaluation platforms, with examples of changing lighting, style, text and symbols. Microsoft says text-to-image generation will follow. For a designer testing it today, the relevant task is an alteration to an existing image, with close inspection of the regions that should remain unchanged. [4]
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- Canva — Craft announcement
Model design and product availability; quality descriptions are vendor claims.
- Canva Developers — Craft API availability
October 22 dated announcement, preview status and user-credit consumption.
- Canva Developers — image-generation job reference
Model identifier, 24-hour result URL and asset-upload option.
- Microsoft AI — MAI-Image-2.7 debut
October 27 editing preview; text-to-image remains future availability.
- Arena model-release log
Arena's October 27 entry confirms MAI-Image-2.7 Preview in Image Edit; does not independently verify Microsoft's promised generation rollout.
Images & figures
Canva Craft generates new images; MAI’s current preview edits existing ones. Text-to-image access is still ahead.
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