Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and the $200 million Weavy acquisition.
For months, Figma has been opening its canvas to other people’s AI. Partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI gave coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex a direct line into the design tool via MCP. Now the company is shipping an AI agent of its own, one that lives inside the collaborative canvas and can generate, edit, and iterate on designs from a simple text prompt.
The assistant, launching first in Figma Design, lets users describe what they want in plain language and watch the agent produce it on the canvas in real time. Figma says users can run multiple agents simultaneously, each handling a different task, effectively adding AI collaborators to the same multiplayer workspace where human teammates already operate.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The company claims its underlying models have been fine-tuned specifically for design work, giving the agent an understanding of layout, components, and visual hierarchy that generic large language models lack.
