Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs

Canva users tin present create, edit, and negociate their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The transportation is the latest of several integrations that let Claude users to entree third-party tools and services, including Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma, without having to permission their speech with the AI chatbot.

Starting today, Claude users volition beryllium capable to usage earthy connection prompts to implicit plan tasks successful their linked Canva account, specified arsenic creating presentations, resizing images, and automatically filling premade templates. The integration besides enables users to hunt for keywords wrong Canva Docs, Presentations, and marque templates, and summarize them done the Claude AI interface. The diagnostic requires some a paid Canva relationship (which starts astatine $15 per month) and a paid Claude relationship ($17 per month).

Anthropic is utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that Canva launched past month, which provides Claude with unafraid entree to idiosyncratic Canva content. MCP, often referred to arsenic the “USB-C larboard of AI” apps, is an open-source modular that enables developers to rapidly link their AI models with different apps and services. Companies similar Anthropic, Microsoft, Figma, and Canva person embraced MCP to hole their platforms for a aboriginal tech scenery that’s expected to beryllium filled with AI agents.

“Instead of uploading oregon manually transferring ideas, users tin present generate, summarize, review, and people Canva designs, each wrong a Claude chat,” Canva Ecosystem caput Anwar Haneef said successful a connection to The Verge. “MCP makes this imaginable with a elemental toggle successful settings, marking a almighty displacement toward user-friendly, AI-first workflows that harvester creativity and productivity successful one.”

Claude is the archetypal AI adjunct to enactment Canva plan workflows done MCP, but the chatbot has different plan level offerings acknowledgment to a similar concern with Figma that was announced past month. A new Claude integrations directory is besides launching connected web and desktop today, which should springiness users an casual overview of each the tools and connected apps astatine their disposal.