Design platform Figma mentioned immediately that it has acquired AI-powered picture and video technology firm Weavy. The startup will be a part of Figma beneath a brand new model referred to as Figma Weave.

Figma mentioned that 20 individuals from Weavy will be a part of the corporate, however didn’t disclose the valuation of the deal. The Tel Aviv-based startup was based in 2024 and raised $4 million in a seed spherical in June led by Entrée Capital, with participation from Designer Fund, Founder Collective, and Fiverr founder Micha Kaufman.

Figma mentioned that Weavy will exist as a standalone product for now and that, sooner or later, will probably be built-in with the Figma Weave model, together with the remainder of the Figma platform.

Weavy’s internet instruments allow customers to mix completely different AI fashions and provide customers professional enhancing instruments to create high-quality photos and movies to be used in product mockups or model styling. Customers can edit these media generations with layer edits, modify lighting, change colours, and angles via prompts to acheive the ultimate end result they need.

Customers begin with a component like a immediate for a picture technology on an infinite canvas, have a look at outcomes from completely different fashions, choose one picture, and add one other immediate for video technology, and have a look at completely different outcomes produced by varied fashions. At any level, customers can use the edit instruments to vary the look of a video. Designers can even mix a number of prompts and fashions to get to the output they need.

The startup provides completely different fashions comparable to Seedance, Sora, and Veo for video, and Flux, Ideogram, Nano-Banana, and Seedream for picture technology.

“This node-based method brings a brand new degree of craft and management to AI technology. Outputs may be branched, remixed, and refined, combining artistic exploration with iteration and craft. The Weavy crew has impressed us with the steadiness they’ve struck between simplicity, approachability, and energy. They’ve additionally created a software that’s only a pleasure to make use of,” Figma CEO Dylan Subject mentioned in an announcement.

AI-powered design platforms are in demand to create media technology and design workflow capabilities. Earlier this month, AI search platform Perplexity acquired the crew behind the Sequoia-backed design platform Visible Electrical. In April, Krea introduced that it had raised $83 million throughout varied rounds from corporations like Bain Capital, a16z, and Summary Ventures.