Credit: Adobe Adobe’s Acrobat is coming to Google Workspace. People will be able to open PDFs in it straight from Google Drive and Gmail. Acrobat will appear as a suggested app in both services, including through an “Edit with” option in file previews. Adobe and Google announced the expanded partnership on Tuesday at Adobe’s MAX conference in Miami Beach.
Google’s Gemini models will also help power the AI features in Acrobat. Those features edit PDFs through conversation, explain what is in a document and turn it into presentations, CVs or reports. “By further connecting our respective platforms, we are giving creators and enterprise teams a powerful, integrated environment to turn their ideas into high-impact content,” said Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud. Photoshop and Google DeepMind Adobe and Google DeepMind will work together on new AI editing features, starting with Photoshop. One idea they are exploring is a Google image model customised for Photoshop.
It could allow near-real-time edits. Users would adjust an image with a prompt, then pick the version closest to their idea. Google’s latest image and video models will keep coming to Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express. Adobe customers can already use Google models including Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana.
Adobe inside Gemini and Search Adobe will add Acrobat and more creative tools to its connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise. People will be able to enhance images, customise designs and work with PDFs inside a chat. Adobe’s creative tools are also coming to AI Mode in Google Search. Earlier this month, Adobe put its marketing agent in Gemini Enterprise, as well as in ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot.
Their recent work together also put Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere on Google’s Googlebook laptops. Premiere mobile has a YouTube Shorts space, too. “Our expanded partnership combines Google’s frontier AI with Adobe’s industry-leading creative and productivity tools at global scale, enabling us to deliver differentiated experiences and bring Adobe’s innovations to more people across Adobe and Google products,” said Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe’s president and incoming chief executive. Adobe says its creative and productivity products have more than 1 billion monthly users. Acrobat opens more than 400 billion PDFs a year, it says.
The companies did not say when the new features will launch. Adobe’s MAX announcements also cover a partnership with Microsoft and its Disney alliance, which it unveiled a day earlier. Get the TNW newsletter ✕ Close Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.
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