Founder of a listed tool
Ethan Smith
Historical co-founder; former Canva global research lead per indexed profile, named behind the Leonardo.Ai API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ethan builds
Leonardo.Ai API F · Image generation
Leonardo's own Phoenix and Lucid image models alongside resold third-party ones (FLUX, GPT Image, Ideogram 3.0, Nano Banana, Seedream) through one v2 generations endpoint.
Historical co-founder; former Canva global research lead per indexed profile, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Chris Gillis Co-founder, COO and CFO
- Jachin Bhasme Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
- JJ Fiasson Co-founder; Leonardo CEO and Canva generative AI lead per Nov 2025 source
- Peter Runham Co-founder and CTO
- Sami Ede Co-founder and Research Lead, Leonardo / Canva
Questions
Who is Ethan Smith?
Ethan Smith co-founded Leonardo.Ai, which Canva acquired in 2024. His own site describes him as Canva's global research lead, exploring how to make AI part of the creative process. He came to AI through experiments with Disco Diffusion after studying at the University of Florida.
What does Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Leonardo.Ai API from Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary). Leonardo's own Phoenix and Lucid image models alongside resold third-party ones (FLUX, GPT Image, Ideogram 3.0, Nano Banana, Seedream) through one v2 generations endpoint.
How are Ethan's tools graded?
Leonardo.Ai API is graded F, 37.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (14)
- https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/ai-vision-november-2025/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jachinb_exciting-news-im-so-thrilled-to-share-activity-7223922727240265730-YUoO
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/jj-fiasson
- https://vercel.com/customers/leonardo-ai-performantly-generates-4-5-million-images-daily-with-next-js-and-vercel
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/peterrunham
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/jachinb
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/sami-ede
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/chris-gillis-08a62832
- https://www.ethansmith2000.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-smith-0b4937196
- https://x.com/torchcompiled
- https://leonardo.ai/
- https://docs.leonardo.ai/docs/need-more-support
- https://leonardo.ai/api
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