Canva customers can now create, edit, and handle their designs by describing their necessities to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The connection is the most recent of a number of integrations that enable Claude customers to entry third-party instruments and companies, together with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma, with out having to depart their dialog with the AI chatbot.
Beginning right this moment, Claude customers will have the ability to use pure language prompts to finish design duties of their linked Canva account, similar to creating shows, resizing photos, and robotically filling premade templates. The combination additionally permits customers to seek for key phrases inside Canva Docs, Displays, and model templates, and summarize them by way of the Claude AI interface. The function requires each a paid Canva account (which begins at $15 per thirty days) and a paid Claude account ($17 per thirty days).
Anthropic is using the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) server that Canva launched final month, which supplies Claude with safe entry to person Canva content material. MCP, sometimes called the “USB-C port of AI” apps, is an open-source customary that allows builders to shortly join their AI fashions with different apps and companies. Firms like Anthropic, Microsoft, Figma, and Canva have embraced MCP to arrange their platforms for a future tech panorama that’s anticipated to be stuffed with AI brokers.
“As a substitute of importing or manually transferring concepts, customers can now generate, summarize, assessment, and publish Canva designs, all inside a Claude chat,” Canva Ecosystem head Anwar Haneef stated in a press release to The Verge. “MCP makes this attainable with a easy toggle in settings, marking a robust shift towards user-friendly, AI-first workflows that mix creativity and productiveness in a single.”
Claude is the primary AI assistant to assist Canva design workflows by way of MCP, however the chatbot has different design platform choices because of an analogous partnership with Figma that was introduced final month. A brand new Claude integrations listing can be launching on internet and desktop right this moment, which ought to give customers a simple overview of all of the instruments and related apps at their disposal.
