GoKawiilA few days ago, Adobe announced Firefly AI Assistant, a cross-app AI agent that coordinates actions and workflows across its Creative Cloud suite from a single conversational interface. Now, the company is making it available in public beta. Here are the details.
As we covered last month, Adobe’s new Firefly AI Assistant is a smart agent that builds on existing AI assistants in several Creative Cloud apps, and orchestrates multi-step actions between them from a single, unified interface, maintaining context across sessions.
From our original coverage:
In practice, this means users won’t need to know the nuts and bolts of platforms such as Photoshop, Premiere, Express, Lightroom, Illustrator, and more. Instead, they’ll prompt Firefly AI Assistant, which will orchestrate actions across these apps to deliver the result.
At the time, Adobe said that the public beta would be available “soon,” with more details to follow. Today, the company is opening the public beta, alongside access to a set of Creative Skills, which are pre-built agentic workflows that cover common user tasks.
That includes batch photo editing, mood board creation, portrait retouching, and social asset generation, among others.
Adobe notes that while Firefly AI Assistant can perform multi-step actions across the company’s apps, users remain in control of the entire process, with the ability to jump in at any point and edit, tweak, or adjust layouts and assets themselves, as they normally would.
The company also says that Firefly AI Assistant will learn the user’s preferences over time, “including preferred tools, workflows and aesthetic choices, to deliver more consistent, tailored results.”
That is in addition to context-aware features that can use or even create adjustment tools on the fly, based on the artwork at hand.
Adobe says that the public beta will start rolling out globally today for customers on Creative Cloud Pro or paid Firefly plans (Pro, Pro Plus and Premium). To learn more about the Adobe Firefly AI Assistant public beta, follow this link.
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