Supercharging Leonardo.Ai’s Innovation with Canva

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Just over 18 months ago, we launched Leonardo.Ai with the vision of democratizing creativity with a cutting edge Generative AI platform. From the early days of easy model finetuning and customizable settings, we’ve been moving at pace to break new ground in the gen AI space, with a focus on providing exceptional control, speed and quality.

We’ve seen incredibly broad adoption, from hobbyists seeking to master AI image gen, to creative professionals concepting films, moodboards, products, characters, and more. One of our proudest moments was last month, when we launched our own foundational model – Phoenix. This model changed what creators on the Leonardo platform can expect from AI image generation, from next-level prompt adherence to hyper-accurate text-in-image. 

We’re super passionate about building cutting-edge AI that is loved globally. We’ve hit some big milestones in the journey, but have so much more we want to do. What we’ve achieved to date is just the beginning of what’s possible – and that’s why we’re joining forces with Canva.

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Hey, Canva 👋

We’re thrilled to share the news today that we’re becoming part of the Canva family. Canva is another company that was founded here in Sydney, Australia, which shares our passion for creativity and sees the potential we see for AI. It’s our shared DNA with Canva that makes us perfectly set up for collaboration and we’re excited that we’re both on the same mission to bring cutting edge AI to the visual and design space.

With Canva’s backing, we will be able to supercharge the Leonardo.Ai platform, and accelerate our pace of innovation. We will be scaling up our research capability in a big way, expanding our global research team to enable them to work across many modalities and tackle more problems at speed.

There are also the features we offer on our platform. We speak to creatives every day and we love seeing what they can do using Leonardo.Ai. The possibilities are endless, and we’re excited to bring more power and control to every creator’s workflow. As part of Canva, we will have the support to significantly scale the Leonardo.Ai platform, and we’re excited about the pipeline of cool new features we are planning to bring to market.

Of course, you’ll also find Leonardo.Ai features popping up on the Canva platform, opening up our tools to an entirely new community of creators and providing a streamlined way to combine Leonardo.Ai tools with Canva’s incredible design platform.  

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We Haven’t Changed

Of course, being part of the Canva family means just that. We’re part of the family – but we’ll continue to run as we always have done as Leonardo.Ai – as an independent platform, building for our community, and with creativity at our core. Our global team will grow, but we’ll continue to stay in our digs in North Sydney, and as a customer, you’ll still find all our tools on the Leonardo.Ai platform, with the same plans and pricing as always. We’ll also continue to keep you up to date with news and help with the platform across our Discord and Facebook communities, X and Linkedin pages. 

We’ll keep working hard to set the standard in generative AI for visual content, and we hope you love the innovation and features we have in the pipeline for you. Let’s do this! 🚀