Adobe announced Thursday that its AI‑assistant strategy is growing with an expanded integration for Anthropic’s Claude and the debut of a connector for Google’s Gemini. The Claude update raises the number of available text‑prompt tools to 80 across Creative Cloud apps—including Acrobat, Photoshop, Premiere, Express and Lightroom—up from the 50 tools launched in April.
The new plugin lets users issue prompts to retouch images, resize videos for social media, and convert PDFs into other formats. Interactive editor tools now let Claude edit Acrobat documents—reordering pages, adding comments or highlights—and customize fonts and colors in Express. Research director Keith Kirkpatrick said the capability widens access for workers who have never fully learned Adobe’s tools and can speed the path from idea to a near‑finished output.
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Senior director of agentic AI Deepti Pradeep emphasized that AI assistants are an additional access point, not a replacement for Adobe’s flagship applications. Adobe plans to roll out similar interactive editor controls to more apps such as Photoshop, while keeping the most complex functions inside the core software. The service follows a freemium model: guest users see a limited toolset, logged‑in users gain broader access with usage restrictions, and paid Creative Cloud subscribers enjoy unlimited functionality, all without extra fees or AI‑credit charges.
