Canva unveiled a slew of new AI products and features at its fall product launch on Thursday, but this technical, kind of boring new drop might actually hold the most promise. Canva has developed a new foundational AI model for design. And that model promises to solve one of my biggest frustrations with AI images.

Foundational models are the digital frameworks running behind the scenes to process your AI requests. Traditional diffusion models can create "flat" images and powered many initial AI image generators. Over the past few years, those models have been upgraded to become omni LLMs -- basically, they are multimodal (can handle text, image and other inputs), became more context-aware, and they are capable of handling more complex tasks. For image generators, that meant it could proce

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