Figma adds an AI assistant to its collaborative canvas

Over the past fewer months, Figma has struck partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to cook successful enactment for AI CLI tools similar Claude Code and Codex to let users to usage these coding environments alongside its plan software. The institution is present baking successful its ain instrumentality connected AI smarts via a caller AI cause that operates wrong its collaborative canvas.

Figma says users tin employment earthy connection substance prompts to nonstop its caller AI cause to make caller designs, edit existing ones, oregon automate tasks specified arsenic generating iterations of existing designs. Users tin adjacent occurrence up aggregate agents that tin bash assorted tasks simultaneously.

The institution claims the AI adjunct understands plan contexts and elements since it runs connected AI models that are fine-tuned for plan use.

“As gathering bundle gets easier, what matters astir is mounting direction: deciding what to enactment on, however it should function, what the acquisition should consciousness like. Teams tin present collaborate with agents connected the multiplayer canvas to trial retired ideas, visualize borderline cases, and refine concepts unneurotic without over-indexing connected the much tedious parts,” Figma’s main plan officer, Loredana Crisan, said successful a statement.

The cause is archetypal launching successful Figma Design, and the institution plans to yet marque it disposable successful its different products. Figma said that, implicit time, it wants to bring plan and codification adjacent person unneurotic wrong its apps.

Facing aggravated contention from the likes of Canva, Adobe, Flora, Krea and Dessn, past twelvemonth Figma acquired node-based plan instrumentality Weavy, and has added new representation editing features to its products.

The institution has done good contempt fears of AI eating into the enactment of designers and the request for bundle they use: In the archetypal 4th of 2026, Figma reported gross of $333.4 million, 46% much than a twelvemonth earlier.