Canva launches Brush, its first vision-language model for design editing, for Canva Pro
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcewww.canva.com · Opens in a new tabCanva introduced Brush, a vision-language model for design built by Canva Research. Brush is powering supported design edits in Canva AI for Canva Pro subscribers, with wider availability planned. Canva says Brush is up to 69% faster and 46% lower cost per edit task than its previous design agent. Brush uses an agentic loop that writes and runs code to adjust design elements and inspects the page to guide next steps. It was post-trained from an open-weights model and refined with reinforcement learning using a reward system tied to visual quality and layout principles.
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Canva introduced Brush, a vision-language model for design built by Canva Research. Brush is powering supported design edits in Canva AI for Canva Pro subscribers, with wider availability planned. Canva says Brush is up to 69% faster and 46% lower cost per edit task than its previous design agent. Brush uses an agentic loop that writes and runs code to adjust design elements and inspects the page to guide next steps. It was post-trained from an open-weights model and refined with reinforcement learning using a reward system tied to visual quality and layout principles.
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- Brush is up to 69% faster for general design editing tasks than Canva's previous design agent.
- Brush cuts cost per edit task by 46% compared with the previous setup, per Canva.
- Brush uses an agentic loop that writes and runs code to adjust design elements and inspects results.
- Brush was post-trained from a leading open-weights model, then refined with large-scale reinforcement learning.
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Canva launched Brush, a vision-language model that reads a design's layout and layers and edits alongside the user. Canva says it is 69% faster on general design edits and 46% cheaper per edit than its previous design agent, and it now powers supported edits in Canva AI for Canva Pro subscribers.
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