India, April 16 -- In an effort to define the leap that Canva AI 2.0 represents, co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins takes us down the memory lane. The year 2011, to be precise, and something called the Canvas Chef. An early prototype of artificial intelligence (AI), essentially as a simple prompt box to design a brochure or a phonebook. "We love to make complex things simple, and just like a decade ago, we think there is always a better way," she tells us. As a creative platform that now harbours ambitions of evolving into a full-fledged productivity suite, a dual approach that intersects new features within an architecture layer and intelligent workflows, underlines the strategy.

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