Canva’s Danny Wu on Giving 230 Million Users Superpowers With AI - Ep. 265

Hello, and welcome to the NVIDIA AI podcast. I'm your host, Noah Kravitz. Our guest today is from Canva. Canva is a visual communications platform. You've probably heard of them. They're really well known. I'll put it that way. They serve all kinds of customers, big, small, Fortune 500, small businesses. Their goal is to make it easy for anyone to design and publish anywhere. So most of the time, I read a little prewritten introduction to welcome to guest on because most of the time, I get to talk to people who are doing really cool things, but I don't get to experience them firsthand because it's not feasible to, you know, go to the lab and watch them make new drugs or what have you. But in this case, in the preplanning, I was encouraged to go check out, some of the new AI features we're gonna be talking about on Canva. So I carved out some time before this taping, and I was just telling Danny, our guest, that I got so excited. I actually Danny, I didn't tell you this part, but I hit kind of blank page syndrome at first because we were saying I'm not a, you know, I was telling you, I'm not like a visually creative person naturally. But then there was an example, and I ran with it. And so I'll tell you more about that in a second. But first, to welcome you on, Danny Wu is head of AI products at Canva. Danny, thank you for taking the time to join the AI podcast. No problem, Noah. I'm really excited to be having this chat, and thank you as well. Thank you. And, you know, I I you can tell it's Friday as well as we're taping this, so that that makes it extra exciting. But it was really cool because I just went on to play with it, and I went to Canva code, and there was a sample. You know, you have little ideas up there for inspiration. Mhmm. One of them was to create an interactive timeline based on history. And so I saw it, and I was like, oh, I can adapt that. Oh, I'll make one for the podcast. And so, you know, I figured out how to change the prompt, and I did it. And it coded it, and then we had the back and forth of adjusting some things, and then I wanted to hook it up to an RSS feed. And, you know, having that experience firsthand is what it's all about. So it made me extra excited to talk to you. So, welcome. Thank you. It's it's kinda told you it's, like, really, really exciting, and that's, that's a great use case. So if you would, tell the audience a little bit about your background, about Canva, and then we'll get into talking about AI. Yeah. Sure thing. So I actually joined Canva about nine years ago back when Doctor. …