By CTech
Publication Date: 2026-02-06 07:10:00
IBM has made a strategic investment in Anima, an Israeli company that converts digital designs into production-ready software code using artificial intelligence, signaling how quickly large corporations are embracing a new generation of developer tools known as “vibe coding.”
The investment, announced by Anima on Thursday, is intended to accelerate the use of its platform inside major organizations that are struggling to keep pace with the demand for digital products. Anima sits between designers who craft the look and feel of applications and engineers who must translate those visuals into working software.
Founded in 2017 and backed early by Y Combinator, Anima has built what it describes as an API-first system tightly integrated with the popular design tool Figma. Its software uses AI agents that draw on a company’s brand guidelines, design systems, and existing front-end code to generate interfaces automatically. More than 1.5 million users have installed the product, and…
