Canva on Thursday launched two new Artificial Intelligence (AI) features for his visual communication forum. Although these are backnd features that will not appear on the user’s front, they significantly improve their abilities in terms of platform integration. The first new feature is Canva’s deep research connector for Canva’s chat. This allows Openai’s chatbot to answer questions about the user’s Canva projects. The second feature is an open model reference protocol server, designed to connect with canva to AI assistants and chatbots to perform several tasks.
Canva gets new integration-based AI features
In a press release, the Visual Communications platform expanded two new features. Calling itself the first design platform to integrate directly into canva, Canva said that Deep Resciere connector allows Openai Chatbot to connect with canva and answer user questions about their files and projects.
Canva This feature will save users the problem of switching between apps and uploading their design manually to chat, if they want to take feedback from AI. This facility will work only when the deep research mode of chatbot is activated.
Interestingly, once connected, the Chatgpt can also understand the reference behind the user’s questions. For example, a user may say, “Combine our Q1 campaign strategy,” and the chatbot will find the user’s canva data to find the right deck and provide a summary for the same. Since deep research is available for Chatgpt users at all levels, the feature does not require users to buy membership.
Visual Communications platform has also added an open MCP server to enable the third-party chatbot to join the canva’s platform. The MCP was designed by the anthropic as a standardized method for the AI system to connect with the external data hub. With this, users can generate design projects and decks, can change the size of files, export imports and export assets, and interact with more their favorite AI chatbot.
For example, a user may ask Gemini to “generate a pitch deck based on this chat”, and Google’s chatbot will create a new canva presentation within the chat interface. While the server was introduced on Thursday, the company says that MCP integration will be available soon, Cloud, Chatgpt, Salesforce and more. No date was provided for integration.