Create layouts illustrations and design deliverables
As of 2026-10-10, AI does this work at L2 Partial automation. 20 updates bear on it. Strongest evidence: From the publisher only.
- Level
- L2Partial automation
- Updates
- 20
- Companies
- 8Anthropic · Google · MiniMax
- Strongest evidence
- T3From the publisher only
What moved it
Every update that bears on this work, newest first.
- 2026-10-08AnthropicAnthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta
Anthropic says Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta, letting users turn data into live dashboards and ideas into animated explainers.
- 2026-10-07GoogleGemini in Google Docs can convert briefs into presentation decks
Gemini in Google Docs can now convert a written brief into an on-brand presentation deck grounded in the user's work files, emails, and chats.
- 2026-10-06GoogleNano Banana 2.1 now live in Stitch
Google's Stitch design tool now integrates Nano Banana 2.1 for generating hero graphics and vector-style logos.
- 2026-10-06GoogleGoogle launches Nano Banana 2.1 image generation and editing model
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an upgraded image generation and editing model with improvements in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency.
- 2026-10-02MiniMaxOpus 5.5 available on MiniMax Design
MiniMax Design now features Opus 5.5, enabling creation from code to motion.
- 2026-10-01GoogleGoogle Pics launches for product mockups and Slides
Google Pics lets users generate custom product mockups and update Slides with a single click.
- 2026-09-24GoogleStitch supports brand kit and product shots in prompts
Google's Stitch now lets users drag brand kits and product shots into prompts, with Gemini 3.8 Flash extracting design systems and generating cohesive layouts around brand rules.
- 2026-09-11GoogleGoogle Pics enables precise image creation, editing, and translation
Google Pics allows users without design experience to perform precise image creation, object editing, and translation in creative workflows.
- 2026-09-11MiniMaxMiniMax Design major upgrade with GPT-6 Astra, MCP integrations, collaborative projects
MiniMax Design received a major upgrade adding GPT-6 Astra, new MCP integrations for Blender, PS, AE and more, and Collaborative Projects for teamwork.
- 2026-09-11GoogleWorkspace Intelligence auto-generates brand-aligned slides
Google Workspace Intelligence now checks existing presentations and templates to generate editable slides matching a team's fonts and style.
- 2026-09-09MiniMaxGPT Image 2.5 available on MiniMax Design
MiniMax Design added GPT Image 2.5, offering more precise edits, better consistency, richer details and faster generation at the same price as Image 2.
- 2026-09-09AlibabaQwenWork adds multimodal creation for product videos, posters and soundtracks
Alibaba Cloud announced that multimodal creation is now live on QwenWork, letting users turn product images into campaign-ready videos, posters and original soundtracks in one conversation.
- 2026-09-09xAIGrok Build supports fully transparent backgrounds
xAI adds support for fully transparent backgrounds in Grok Build, enabled via /theme transparent.
- 2026-09-08OpenAIOpenAI introduces GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst in the API
OpenAI adds new image models, GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst, to its API with sharper detail, stronger style adherence, and more edit control.
- 2026-09-08OpenAIOpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster generation, improved fidelity, consistent details across edits, and comment-based editing tools.
- 2026-09-01AlibabaQwen-Image 3.0 image generation model presented
Alibaba Cloud presents Qwen-Image 3.0, which draws frames with text, people and layouts in 12 languages as part of a visual AI pipeline.
- 2026-08-27GoogleGoogle Workspace with Gemini path Week 5 covers Gemini in Slides
Google announced Week 5 of the Google Workspace with Gemini learning path, covering Gemini in Google Slides for generating decks, refining layouts and creating visuals.
- 2026-08-26GoogleStitch positioned as collaborative design agent
Google's Stitch is described as a collaborative design partner agent that helps explore design variations before coding.
- 2026-08-26MetaMuse Image brought to developer creative tools
Meta announced that Muse Image is being brought to creative tools that developers rely on.
- 2026-08-24Moonshot AIKimi-K3 goes live with 2.8T parameters and 1M-token context
Kimi-K3 is live with 2.8T parameters and native 1M-token context, aimed at repo-scale engineering, visual creation and planning agents; a 1M-token free trial is available on Model Studio and Qwen Cloud.