Adobe and Google are expanding their partnership, with plans to bring more of each company’s tools and AI technology into the other’s products.
Adobe Acrobat is expected to become available in Google Drive and Gmail, while Google’s latest image-generation tools are set to appear in Photoshop, Premiere and Firefly. The announcement was made Tuesday during Adobe MAX, a major creative industry conference in Miami Beach.
Ely Greenfield, Adobe’s chief technology officer for its creativity business, said the company has spent recent years exploring how AI can help people work more effectively and expand what they can create.
In the past, people often needed to use a desktop program such as Photoshop to access advanced creative tools, Greenfield said. Now, those capabilities can reach users through web apps, Adobe’s desktop software and AI platforms such as Gemini, where more people are starting their work.
Greenfield said the partnership brings together Adobe’s experience making creative tools accessible with Google’s AI research and its ability to reach users around the world. The tools are intended to support tasks ranging from creating content to reading or editing PDFs.
Matt Renner, Google Cloud’s president and chief revenue officer, said business leaders often ask Google to make technology simpler to use and help employees get more done.
Some of the companies’ products are already being connected. Adobe tools are available through connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise, and Acrobat is expected to appear as a suggested app in Google Workspace, including Drive and Gmail.
The companies also plan to bring Google’s AI models into Acrobat, allowing people to edit PDFs through conversation, summarize documents and create content more quickly. Google’s advanced image and video models are also planned for Photoshop, Firefly Express and Premiere.
Adobe and Google DeepMind are exploring additional editing features for creative professionals. One possibility is adapting a Google image model for Photoshop so users can make near-real-time changes with prompts and choose from different image variations.
