Adobe announced a broad expansion of AI features across its creative software lineup at its MAX event in Miami in November 2026, with updates spanning Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and its Firefly platform.
The centerpiece of the announcement is a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows third-party chatbots — including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — to access Adobe Creative Cloud features directly. Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch the company is releasing endpoints across Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere, with plans to expand based on user feedback. “We don’t have any need or desire to sort of limit what the MCP endpoint can expose,” Subramaniam said.
Adobe’s Firefly app is also gaining a prototyping tool called Builder, currently in private beta, which lets users create and present design concepts — a space currently occupied by rival Figma. Additional Firefly additions include a tool for creating on-brand graphs, an image editing feature that modifies selected areas without affecting other objects, and an AI-powered video assembly tool that combines clips, images, and sound effects.
Across other apps, Photoshop is receiving a relighting feature and prompt-based generative style sliders. Premiere is adding a professional color grading system and an object removal tool for video. Lightroom is gaining a blink correction feature and a blemish removal tool. Adobe is also making its AI agent more proactive, giving it broader context about a user’s work to assist with tasks like background removal and thumbnail generation.
Adobe’s recent acquisition Topaz Labs is releasing two image models through the platform: Wonder 4, for upscaling and denoising, and ImageHDR, which converts standard images to HDR.
The updates extend Adobe’s existing integrations with third-party AI model providers including Google, OpenAI, Runway, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, Kling, and ByteDance. The MCP release may draw further attention to the standard, which Figma co-founder Dylan Field said last month is imperfect and tends to benefit frontier AI labs more than other players.
Source: TechCrunch