India, April 16 -- An orchestra, where everything works seamlessly. Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva credits one of the company's engineers for curating this analogy to describe a new direction the 13-year old platform is taking. Focus is now on artificial intelligence (AI) agents, which will take guidance from humans, to execute complex tasks. Adobe too, earlier today, announced a new creative agent across their platforms.

Agentic AI is on the agenda for tech companies, though each is approaching the conversation differently. Creative platforms are visualising AI as a collaborative element in designing, a subtle change from a theme repeatedly set by AI companies including OpenAI, Nvidia and Anthropic, which centers around re...