Thailand's PM negotiated with Canva (an Australian design platform with 30M+ Thai accounts and 7M monthly active users—making Thailand the 6th largest market globally) to establish a regional headquarters and AI-Design research center in the country. The government aims to shift Thailand from being merely a user base to a hub for technology development and design talent, targeting 40,000 SMEs, scaling designer creators from 190 to 1,000, and doubling education users from 3.3M to 6.6M by 2026. This positions Thailand as a design-tech powerhouse while funneling global marketplace revenue back to local creators.