Adobe introduced Firefly AI Assistant on April 15, a conversational agent that sequences multi-step tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom and Express from a single chat window. The press release frames it as a shift from tool-hopping to describing outcomes in plain language. Public beta lands "in the coming weeks," per Adobe.
This is the production version of Project Moonlight, which Adobe previewed at MAX last October. Users describe the result they want, the agent picks the right apps in the right order, and context carries between sessions. The company blog says it also learns user preferences over time. Standalone pricing wasn't disclosed.
The features shipping today are more concrete. Firefly Video Editor picks up Enhance Speech for dialogue cleanup, sliders for exposure, contrast and saturation, and direct access to Adobe Stock's 800-million-asset library. On the image side, Precision Flow generates variation sweeps from one prompt, and AI Markup lets creators brush edits onto a photo before prompting.
Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni, both from Kuaishou, join Firefly's third-party model roster. Adobe says the total now sits above 30, though some of those are earlier versions of the same models. The more interesting detail: Adobe confirmed the assistant will eventually work inside Anthropic's Claude, letting users trigger Adobe tools without opening an Adobe app, according to TechCrunch reporting.
More demos expected at Adobe Summit, April 19 to 22 in Las Vegas.
Bottom Line
Firefly AI Assistant enters public beta in the coming weeks, with Claude integration planned as a separate track.
Quick Facts
- Announced April 15, 2026
- Works across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom, Express
- 30+ third-party AI models in Firefly (company-reported)
- Adds Kling 3.0 and Kling 3.0 Omni from Kuaishou
- Public beta timing: "coming weeks," no set date
