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Adobe Expands Firefly Agent Across Core Creative Cloud Apps

The update aims to speed production by embedding an in‑app AI assistant that executes creative tasks, generates brand kits, and stores reusable assets.

Overview

  • Adobe announced Thursday that it is adding Firefly sidebars to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io so users can send prompts and have the assistant perform actions inside each app.
  • The company added pre-built Creative Skills for end-to-end work, including Brand kit creation, Short product videos, Quick Cut for automatic rough cuts, and Storyboards to turn ideas into sequences.
  • Elements and Projects launched in private beta to let creators save reusable characters, objects and locations and to collect generations, assets, and project context in one place.
  • Agentic features can run concrete tasks on users’ behalf, for example organizing and batch-renaming clips in Premiere, fact-checking a Photoshop file against a client brief, updating InDesign layouts to new brand rules, and running Illustrator pre-print checks.
  • Firefly already works with ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot and Adobe says it will add Google Gemini and Slack support, a push that could shift how teams work by bringing AI-driven production tools into the apps and platforms they already use.