How Canva Built a Modern AI Platform Using Anyscale
Canva is an online visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. Canva’s market-leading visual communication platform provides a wide range of AI-powered features and services that have helped it grow rapidly to more than $2B USD in revenue. With Anyscale, Canva can test and evolve new machine learning models up to 12x faster than previously possible, scaling from 4 GPUs to 80 GPUs while achieving nearly 100% GPU utilization and reducing cloud costs by 50%. Canva is fulfilling its vision of accelerating AI development with no limits on scale. In the words of its team, “we wanted to go fast, and we wanted to go far.”
Canva has more than 100 machine learning models in production, powering its products as well as internal operations. Canva’s business is large and growing fast, with more than 170M monthly active users across 190 countries, producing over 20B designs to date.
Canva was early in seizing the AI opportunity, which has helped accelerate its growth over the last year. For Canva, the rapid advancements in AI have given the company the opportunity to reimagine the design process.
