Figma Ships a Native AI Design Agent (Revenue +46%) Weeks After Anthropic's 'Claude Design' Rattled the Category

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Figma launched an agentic design assistant that lives inside its multiplayer canvas — generating UI elements and handling pixel-level edits — plus new erase/isolate/expand image tools, as revenue rose 46%. It's a defensive response to Anthropic's mid-April 'Claude Design' standalone tool (co-developed with Canva), which knocked Figma stock roughly 7% and Adobe roughly 2.5% on announcement day. Design tooling is now a three-way agent race where the incumbent and the model lab are shipping competing canvases.