Adobe Ushers in a New Era of Creativity with New Creative Agent and Generative AI Innovations in Adobe Firefly
- New Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe's creative agent, enables creators to direct outcomes in their own words as the assistant orchestrates and executes complex, multi-step workflows across Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and generative AI models in a single conversational interface
- Adobe Firefly expands AI video and image editing with studio-quality audio, advanced color controls and precision image adjustments, and grows its industry-leading roster of 30+ creative AI models, giving creators unmatched control, choice and flexibility
- With these innovations, Adobe Firefly is the definitive all-in-one creative AI studio: the home of agentic creativity, with the industry's top creative AI models, pro-grade editing tools and the power and precision of Adobe's creative apps together in one place
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) – the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms – unveiled Firefly AI Assistant, powered by Adobe's creative agent, that brings the power of Adobe's creative tools into a single conversational interface. Available soon in Adobe Firefly, the all-in-one creative AI studio, Firefly AI Assistant enables creators to describe the outcome they want using their own words as the assistant orchestrates and executes complex, multi-step workflows across Adobe's Creative Cloud apps, including Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and more.
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Upcoming Firefly AI Assistant from Adobe enables creators to direct outcomes in their own words as the assistant orchestrates and executes multi-step workflows across Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and generative AI models
This marks a fundamental shift in how creative work is done, allowing creators to direct the assistant to achieve the outcomes they want, saving time and effort while collapsing the distance between what they imagine and what they can create. Adobe's approach to agentic creativity puts creators in control: they provide the vision, judgment, and creative direction, while the assistant handles the orchestration and execution. Firefly AI Assistant builds on Adobe's investment in assistive, conversational and generative AI, extending that foundation to power a new era of agentic creativity.
"Adobe is leading the shift into a new era of agentic creativity, where you direct how your work takes shape and your perspective, voice and taste become the most powerful creative instruments of all," said David Wadhwani, President, Creativity & Productivity Business, Adobe. "Adobe Firefly is a category of one, with the best models, the most powerful tools and now, a fundamentally new way of creating that gives you the combined power and precision of all our creative apps in one place."
Adobe also significantly expanded Firefly's video and image editing capabilities, introducing new features in Firefly Video Editor including studio-quality sound, advanced color adjustments and Adobe Stock integration, as well as new precision image editing capabilities such as Precision Flow and AI Markup. Firefly's roster of more than 30 top industry AI models now includes Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni, joining Google's Nano Banana 2 and Veo 3.1, Runway's Gen-4.5, ElevenLabs' Multilingual v2 and more, to offer creators unmatched choice and flexibility in how they create.
Together, these innovations cement Firefly as the definitive all-in-one creative AI studio, giving every creator the speed, control and creative freedom to move from idea to high-quality content.
Firefly AI Assistant: A New Way to Create Across Adobe's Apps
Firefly AI Assistant lets creators simply describe the outcome they want, then orchestrates and executes complex, multi-step workflows across Adobe Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere, Express, Lightroom, Illustrator and more, all within a single, unified conversational interface. For creators of all levels, this shift to agentic creation simplifies the process of getting started and making progress quickly without navigating multiple apps or manual steps. For creative professionals, it unlocks the ability to direct more complex, multi-step workflows, combining speed with the control and precision required for high-quality creative work.
Coming soon to the Firefly app, Firefly AI Assistant will include:
- A Single, Unified Conversational Interface: Firefly AI Assistant brings content creation into a unified conversational interface inside the Firefly app. Creators can describe the outcome they want and the assistant orchestrates workflows, surfaces results and maintains context, progress and decisions across sessions. This context carries seamlessly into individual Adobe apps, eliminating the need to start from scratch.
- AI Supported, Creator-Led: The assistant keeps creators in control by asking contextual questions, surfacing decisions and presenting suggestions. Creators can step in at any point to guide, refine or adjust outputs.
- Pre-built Creative Skills: A growing library of Creative Skills, purpose-built for creative workflows, enables the assistant to execute complex, multi-step tasks from a single prompt. Creators can use one of Adobe's pre-built Skills—such as retouching portrait photos with consistent presets or generating content across social channels —or customize and create their own.
- Personalized to Each Creator: The assistant can learn the creator's preferences over time, including preferred tools, workflows and aesthetic choices, to deliver more consistent, tailored results.
- Asset Awareness and Context: The assistant understands the content being created, including images, video, designs and brand assets, enabling it to take more relevant, context-aware actions.
- Integrated Review and Iteration with Frame.io: Creators can ask the assistant to organize and share work in Frame.io, where stakeholders can review and provide feedback. The assistant will interpret the feedback and automatically apply changes using the best tools, shortening the loop from review to final, production-ready content.
Adobe will also bring this new way of creating with Adobe apps to leading third-party AI models including Anthropic's Claude, enabling creators to access the best of Adobe directly across the surfaces where they work every day.
"The best creative work flows between thinking and making," said Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Anthropic. "Together with Adobe, we're exploring new ways to help creators conceptualize a project in Claude and reach straight into Adobe Firefly to execute it. That can bring about a meaningful change in how creative work gets done."
Learn more about Adobe's vision for agentic creativity and Firefly AI Assistant.
New Video and Image Editing Capabilities, and Expanded Partner Models in Adobe Firefly
The intuitive, multi-track Firefly Video Editor adds new capabilities, including:
- Audio Upgrades: Enhance Speech, the award-winning feature in Premiere and Adobe Podcast that automatically cleans up dialogue, is now available in Firefly Video Editor, along with additional audio enhancements. Creators can reduce noise and reverb and balance speech, music and ambience for polished sound in just a few clicks.
- Color Adjustments: Creators can fine-tune exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature, and other key visual elements inside the Firefly Video Editor. Intuitive sliders put creators in control of the intensity of each adjustment, while one-click looks make it easy to get started.
- Adobe Stock Integration: Creators can access over 800 million licensed assets including video, images, audio and sound effects – directly within the Firefly Video Editor workflow.
Adobe is also bringing two powerful image editing capabilities to deliver a new level of precision and control:
- Precision Flow: Creators can explore and refine images faster by generating a wide range of results from a single prompt. An intuitive slider lets creators browse variations—from subtle shifts to dramatic transformations—and select the version that best matches their vision without starting over.
- AI Markup: Creators can take hands-on control over where and how edits are applied. Using a brush, rectangle tool or reference images, they can draw directly on an image to place objects, sketch new elements or refine lighting.
Firefly continues to expand access to the industry's top AI models with the addition of Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni video AI models:
- Kling 3.0: The all-purpose video model is optimized for fast, high-quality production with smart storyboarding and audio-visual sync.
- Kling 3.0 Omni: The model adds advanced control and consistency, enabling creators to define shot duration, camera angle and character movement across multi-shot sequences.
These join more than 30 creative AI models already available in Firefly, including Google's Nano Banana 2 and Veo 3.1, Runway Gen-4.5, Luma AI's Ray3.14, Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2[pro], ElevenLabs' Multilingual v2, Topaz Lab's Topaz Astra and Adobe's commercially safe Firefly models.
Adobe Summit 2026
At Adobe Summit—the flagship customer experience conference—Adobe will demonstrate how its agentic AI innovations enable creative and marketing teams to scale the production of high-quality, on-brand content, and reshape the entire customer lifecycle, from acquiring and engaging prospects to driving conversion and lasting loyalty.
Pricing and availability
Firefly AI Assistant will be available in public beta in Firefly in the coming weeks.
New video and image editing capabilities, and access to new partner models, are available in Firefly starting today for customers with a Firefly plan.
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