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At Adobe Max, Firefly Image Model 5 Leads Wave of Public Betas and YouTube Shorts Integration

Adobe positions Firefly as a multimodal studio grounded in licensed data with an open partner ecosystem.

Overview

  • Firefly Image Model 5 enters public beta with native 4MP output plus Prompt to Edit for natural‑language, layered image edits.
  • New Firefly audio tools, Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech, are in public beta for synced music and multilingual voiceovers.
  • Agentic AI assistants roll out with Express in public beta and Photoshop on a private‑beta waitlist, as Project Moonlight begins private testing to carry context across apps.
  • Photoshop’s Generative Fill now lets users switch to partner models like Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 Kontext, with assets carrying Content Credentials and added partners ElevenLabs and Topaz Labs.
  • Premiere Pro’s AI Object Mask and Lightroom’s Assisted Culling move to public beta, a web‑based Firefly Video Editor and Firefly Foundry/custom models remain in private beta, and Premiere mobile adds Create for YouTube Shorts publishing.