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- Magical thinking. Earlier this year, Canva cofounder and CEO Melanie Perkins told me about the major problem she saw in the AI landscape: It was too fragmented, with products for writing or for video but nothing that incorporated everything in the same place.
A few weeks ago, the Sydney-based CEO took a step toward filling that gap—and seizing that business opportunity—with the launch of Canva's Magic Studio. Released in October, the suite of tools creates AI-generated images, videos, presentations, and writing. It can shuffle between those formats, turning a slideshow deck into a t-shirt design. It translates across languages and learns a company's brand voice to create visuals and text.
