Adobe has unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, a new tool that lets users control multiple Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Lightroom through a single conversational interface. Users describe what they want in plain language, and the assistant executes multi-step workflows across the relevant apps.
The assistant is the commercial release of a research prototype called Project Moonlight, which Adobe first showed at its MAX conference in 2025. According to Adobe Vice President of AI Alexandru Costin, the system now draws on roughly 100 tools and skills. Outputs are saved in native Adobe file formats such as PSD and AI, allowing users to continue editing manually at any point.
The assistant also includes pre-built Creative Skills which users can customize: workflow templates for tasks like portrait retouching or social media asset generation. The system learns individual preferences over time and integrates with Frame.io for review and feedback.
Adobe also expanded its roster of third-party AI models in Firefly to more than 30, adding Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni from Chinese company Kuaishou. Adobe notes that these third-party models carry different commercial safety profiles than its own Firefly models, which are trained on licensed content.
The Firefly AI Assistant will enter public beta in the coming weeks. Using it requires an active Adobe subscription that includes the relevant apps.
Sources: Adobe, VentureBeat
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