What is Recraft, the infinite-canvas AI image generator aimed at ‘pro designers’? [Video]

Just when we thought the positions in the list of the best AI image generators had all been taken, along comes a new contender apparently out of nowhere. Recraft, AKA Red Panda, offers a suite of tools and claims to be an “AI image generator for pro designers”.

That’s a position surely already claimed by Adobe Firefly. So what makes Recraft different? And what does it have to do with red pandas?

What is Recraft AI image generator AKA Red Panda?

The Red Panda AI image generator sprang to attention when it jumped to the top of the the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Model Leaderboard, a ranking on Hugging Face that gives AI image generators scores based on quality, speed and price. It turned out that Red Panda was a codename for Recraft V3, the latest AI model from a London-based company that was founded in 2022 but which …