Adobe on Tuesday, at its MAX conference in Miami Beach, said it is expanding the Adobe Creative Agent and previewing local Model Context Protocol integrations for Creative Cloud tools. The Creative Agent now powers expanded AI Assistants (beta) in Illustrator, Premiere, InDesign, After Effects, and Frame.io, Adobe said, so professionals can direct multi-step tasks in their own words. In a separate Creative Cloud announcement, Adobe said those AI Assistants are in beta in its flagship desktop apps, except Photoshop, where the assistant is available in the Photoshop beta app. The Verge reported that AI assistants had already been introduced in several of those apps earlier this year and are now gaining new Premiere capabilities, including tracking masked subjects and adjusting effects, color, or exposure across a sequence.
Adobe is previewing local MCP integrations that will let people direct a preferred third-party agent to make changes locally in native Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects project files, the company said. Layers, vectors, bins, and sequences would remain editable, and users could step in at any time, Adobe said. The integrations are not available yet. Adobe said they will enter private beta in early 2027, a timetable The Verge also reported. TechCrunch also wrote about the local MCP plan. The Verge said the integrations would enable agents from providers such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to work locally in those apps.
Adobe and Google also announced an expanded partnership. Adobe said Acrobat will be available in Google Workspace, with a pathway from Google Drive and Gmail, and that Gemini models will help power AI capabilities in Acrobat. The company said it will bring Adobe creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search and expand Gemini and Gemini Enterprise connectors with Acrobat and additional creative tools. Adobe and Google DeepMind will explore new AI-powered editing capabilities, starting with Photoshop. Adobe said the companies are exploring customization of a Google image model for Photoshop that could allow near-real-time, prompt-based edits. Those Google partnership items were described as planned or exploratory, not as features shipping on Tuesday.
The MAX announcements also included a multi-year alliance with The Walt Disney Company, which Adobe said is becoming an Official AI Innovation Partner. AI Tech Daily reported Monday that Disney and Adobe plan to co-develop custom AI models on Firefly Foundry.
Sources
- Adobe: Adobe Powers a New Era of Creativity, Bringing Agents and Tools to Creatives Wherever and However They Create (November 10, 2026)
- Adobe: Adobe Transforms its Creative Cloud Tools into Agentic Workflows (November 10, 2026)
- Adobe: Adobe and Google Deepen Partnership (November 10, 2026)
- The Verge: Adobe is going all in on agentic AI, by Jess Weatherbed (November 10, 2026)
- TechCrunch: Adobe adds more AI to its products and launches an MCP, by Ivan Mehta (November 10, 2026)
- AI Tech Daily: Disney and Adobe to co-develop custom AI models on Firefly Foundry, Reuters reports (November 9, 2026)