India, April 10 -- Canva, a visual communication platform that still finds fragmented competition but no direct rival, is rapidly building on a foundation carefully curated over the past year. Artificial intelligence (AI) experiences and relevance for enterprises mark Canva's duality in focus. This comes at a time when the competitive landscape doesn't just include creative and workspace tools from the likes of Adobe, Google and Microsoft; but an increasing number of generative AI tools that rightly stake claim to creative prowess themselves. The Ghibli style smarts of the OpenAI's ChatGPT is an example with image generation, while Google's Gemini 2.5 stakes claim as the most proficient coding model.

In a conversation with HT, Cliff Obre...