AI in design & creative: 7 real deployments

deployed Grok Imagine Image 2.0 as the default Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and iOS/Android apps, adding magic-wand region edits, multi-reference generation with up to five input images, smart resize across nine aspect ratios, and workflow templates

Reported: ranks second on both Arena text-to-image (1,320) and image-editing (1,439) leaderboards

Google paused Google Earth's generative image feature after users produced policy-violating synthetic satellite imagery and investigators raised verification concerns.

Meta discontinued an Instagram feature that generated AI images from mentions of public accounts after objections over default use of people's likenesses.

Reported: The feature was reversed days after launch following objections from CAA, SAG-AFTRA and Public Citizen.

Deploying Seedance AI video and Seedream AI image generation models across TikTok, CapCut and Dreamina

Netflix uses generative AI primarily for post-production work including visual effects, animation and pre-visualization.

Reported: Netflix disclosed that roughly 300 titles used generative AI during 2026.

Roblox embedded a text-to-game generator in its mobile app so users can create basic playable experiences from natural-language prompts.

Reported: The feature enters a consumer product used by roughly 80 million daily active users.

Five named early adopters use Cadence's agentic platform to automate PCB and advanced-packaging design and multiphysics simulations.

Reported: Cadence claims up to 15x productivity and twice-as-fast time to market; Forvia Hella reduced a component-placement task from four days to about four minutes.