Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday is the year’s largest release, with 963 CVEs requiring customer action, 106 rated critical. Two are already exploited: CVE-2026-81963 in the Windows Update Stack and CVE-2026-85880 in Advanced Local Procedure Call. Nothing in this release was publicly disclosed ahead of the patch. Readiness recommends a Patch Now scheduling for Windows, Office, SQL Server and the developer tooling, and standard patch release for Exchange. The Readiness team has published an infographic summarising deployment risk by product family.
Three client issues are carried in from August close with this update, covering:
And Microsoft has left open a Microsoft Defender Antivirus notification defect, confirmed on 28 August, in which devices report that Defender is turned off while it is running correctly.
The quietest revision window of recent months arrived alongside the largest release. Between the August and September Patch Tuesdays, from 12 August to 7 September, the MSRC Security Update Guide touched 324 CVEs. Of those, 307 were routine Microsoft Edge and Chromium republications requiring no customer action.
That leaves 17 entries affecting Microsoft’s own products, and only one of those is a genuine revision. CVE-2026-59133, an elevation of privilege in the High-Performance Computing Pack, moved to version 1.1, and its own revision note records the change as informational. For comparison, August’s window carried 76 revisions to Microsoft’s own products, 60 of them flagged as requiring customer action.
The Readiness team has reviewed all 963 published updates. Microsoft has published no mitigations and no workarounds anywhere in this release.
Microsoft has published no new service or enforcement deadlines for September. The lifecycle picture is different, with multiple end-of-support notices for this coming October:
A second wave follows on 10 November 2026, and it is the one most likely to catch development teams rather than infrastructure teams. .NET 8 reaches the end of its long-term support branch, PowerShell 7.4 does the same, and Windows 11 Enterprise and Education 23H2 ends servicing alongside Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 23H2.
Microsoft’s test guidance for this release runs to 466 Windows entries, 55 of them flagged as high risk, against 109 and four in August. Given the large number of updates this month (who would have thought that we would be here at 963 CVEs), the Readiness team recommends the following testing priorities:
Each month, we break down the update cycle into product families, as defined by Microsoft, with the following groupings.
Microsoft has not released any updates for their browser products for the second month in a row. September’s Security Update Guide carries no Edge-specific CVEs at all, and the 307 Chromium republications in the revision window required no customer action. The nine Edge CVEs that did appear arrived mid-cycle on 28 August and were serviced through the browser’s own update channel rather than this release.
Estates on a managed Edge channel have nothing to do here beyond confirming the channel is current. It is the one quiet corner of an otherwise heavy month.
Windows carries 726 CVEs, 77 of them critical, which is three-quarters of the entire release. Elevation of privilege dominates by volume at 406 entries, with remote code execution second at 156, information disclosure at 94 and denial of service at 47. The pattern is the reverse of the severity picture: the bulk is local elevation, while the critical-rated entries cluster in the network-facing roles.
Add this Windows update to your Patch Now schedule, with DHCP and DNS servers first and the biometric stack close behind.
Microsoft released 137 Office CVEs this month, 24 of them critical, with remote code execution the through-line at 69 entries and information disclosure close behind at 52. September breaks the recent pattern in a way that matters for deployment: this wave is not MSI-only.
Nothing in Office is exploited this month. With 24 critical-rated entries and the Click-to-Run channel carrying most of the exposure, the September Office updates belong on the Patch Now schedule regardless.
Exchange is quiet and SQL Server is not, which inverts the usual relationship between the two.
Exchange goes on the Schedule list, and SQL Server goes on the Patch Now list. That is an unusual split, and it is driven by the four critical remote code execution entries on the database estate.
Microsoft released 24 CVEs across its developer tooling this month, 23 rated important and one critical. Security feature bypasses are the main focus with eight CVE entries, with remote code execution and information disclosure at four each.
Add these to your standard release schedule, behind this month’s Windows, Office and SQL Server priorities. Keep the 10 November date for .NET 8 and PowerShell 7.4 in view while you are in the developer estate, because a patch this month does not extend either branch.
September is the largest release of the year, and this (crazy, super high) volume is the least interesting thing about it. The 963 CVEs matter less than the 55 entries Microsoft flags as high risk, and those sit in printing and fonts. Adobe shipped two Acrobat builds one digit apart and only the second is a security update (nothing to worry about here). Of the CVEs Microsoft republished, 25 are not Microsoft’s. A version number tells you very little about the work in front of you. So, given my (super-secret knowledge) of how Microsoft operates over the summer, here is my prediction for next month (October). It won’t be as big as this month – but just you wait – November is going to be big. Let’s up those numbers (or not).
Adobe on Wednesday unveiled a range of updates to Acrobat, including the ability to turn PDF documents into interactive visual reports and podcasts. And a new Knowledge Base feature connects Adobe’s Acrobat AI assistant to document sources such as Microsoft SharePoint and Google Drive.
It’s the biggest Acrobat update in several years, Adobe said, and highlights the application’s evolution from PDF reader to what the company now describes as an AI-powered document productivity and creativity platform.
Acrobat users open more than 400 billion PDFs in the app each year, Adobe said, claiming 650 million monthly active users as of last year.
Among the new additions is the ability to turn dense PDFs into interactive, visual documents and presentation slides. To create these, Acrobat’s AI assistant scans the selected file, asks questions about the user’s intent, then generates documents charts, images and navigation.
It’s also possible to turn documents and web links into podcast-style audio summaries — similar to capabilities in Google’s NotebookLLM and Microsoft Copilot Notebook. A new Stylize feature can enhance plain-looking documents, applying a template to turn them into “professional deliverables” such as CVs and invoices, Adobe said.
The audio and visual generation features are all available in paid Acrobat plans (Acrobat Studio, Acrobat Express and Acrobat AI Assistant).
Another addition, Acrobat Knowledge Base, lets customers connect the Acrobat AI assistant to a wider range of file types, enabling users to ask questions about information held in documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint and Google Drive, for example.
Acrobat’s Knowledge Base “transforms curated document collections — policies, playbooks, product information, pricing guidance, research — into cited answers available from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Acrobat, and other places employees already work,” Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president for Adobe Document Cloud, said in a blog post.
Adobe also added an Analyzer tool designed to retrieve data from large volumes of documents. This could involve analyzing thousands of contracts or invoices to identify information such as renewal dates and revenue clauses.
That turns information once trapped in files into data that can inform finance, procurement, compliance, and the systems that support them, said Modi.
Analyzer is the more interesting of the two releases, said Mike Leone, vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “Knowledge Base is a search product and search products get judged feature against feature. Analyzer is closer to a data product, because that extraction work is what companies currently pay people and pipelines to do,” he said.
“What I’d want Adobe to answer is whether that data can leave Acrobat and land where the rest of the company’s data lives. If it can, this starts competing for real data budget. If it stays inside the app, it’s a very good Acrobat feature.”
Access to Analyzer and Knowledge Base requires an Acrobat Studio for Enterprise subscription. (Adobe doesn’t publish pricing.)
In addition, Knowledge Base includes a credit-based model that places some restrictions on usage, with licensed users allowed up to 1,000 queries a month. Other actions, such as document uploads, queries from Slack and Microsoft Teams, and queries by employees without an Acrobat Studio license, draw varying amounts of Acrobat Studio “shared credits.” Adobe didn’t say how much additional credits cost once a yearly limit is reached.
More information about Adobe’s Knowledge Base credit usage policy is available on Adobe’s website.
Analyzer also includes a credit system that limits document ingestion and attribute extraction.
For enterprise customers, usage-based pricing can add complexity when managing employee access.
“The issue for a broad deployment is that headcount barely predicts usage,” said Leone. “One person pointing it at 10,000 contracts will burn more credits than a hundred people asking the occasional question. Pooling the credits across the whole organization is the right design, because usage on something like this is rarely spread evenly.
“One of the big challenges is that people could very well start rationing themselves because they don’t know what a question costs,” he said. “Or worse, a couple folks use all the credits and everyone else is out of luck. The last thing any organization wants is to pay for a knowledge tool that people won’t use or can’t use.”
A Adobe anunciou uma nova leva de recursos de inteligência artificial (IA) que estão chegando ao Premiere e ao After Effects, incluindo a nova Generative Media Tool.
A nova ferramenta permite gerar vídeos e efeitos sonoros a partir da própria linha do tempo, dentro do Premiere.
Para utilizar a Generative Media Tool, basta selecionar o trecho da linha do tempo em que você deseja criar, descrever aquilo que deverá ser gerado, escolher um dos modelos de IA suportados pela ferramenta (Adobe Firefly, Google Veo, Runway, Luma ou Kling) e pronto, o conteúdo gerado já estará presente no seu projeto.
Os materiais feitos por IA são adicionados como clipes editáveis, permitindo que o usuário os manipule como quiser. Além disso, caso seja da sua preferência, a ferramenta possui a capacidade de utilizar quadros de vídeos já existentes como referência para aquilo que será gerado, tornando o recurso ideal para estender determinadas cenas.
Já em matéria de áudio, o Premiere possui agora ferramentas (implementadas em fase beta) para tratamento e separação de vozes em falas simultâneas.
A Adobe também atualizou o Color Mode, destinado a correções de cor realizadas dentro do Premiere, oferecendo tanto visuais cinematográficos com os novos Style Modules (com os modos Vignette e Midtones) quanto a Auto Color Tool, que corrige automaticamente a exposição e a temperatura de um clipe ou uma sequência.
Por fim, a empresa também anunciou a chegada do seu assistente de IA para os usuários do After Effects (em versão beta), permitindo tanto a novos usuários da ferramenta quanto aos editores mais experientes manipular projetos e criar efeitos a partir de comandos em linguagem natural.
Todas essas novidades já estão disponíveis para os assinantes da suíte Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe’s search for a new CEO is over: It has promoted Anil Chakravarthy, president of its customer experience orchestration business, to the top role.
It has taken six months to find a successor to outgoing CEO Shantanu Narayen, who announced in March that he would step back from the CEO role, remaining with the company as chairman.
There had been much speculation that he would be replaced by Adobe’s president of creativity and productivity, David Wadhwani, who was responsible for the digital media business segment that generates around three-quarters of the company’s revenue. Having missed out on the top job, however, he has chosen to leave Adobe, announcing his departure on LinkedIn.
Chakravarthy was responsible for the development of several products, including Adobe CX Enterprise, GenStudio and Brand Visibility, as well as the introduction of CX Enterprise Coworker.
He takes over at a shaky time for Adobe: Its stock price has tumbled dramatically in the past few years as the rise of AI has meant workers can lay out content and manipulate photos without needing Adobe products. Chakravarthy, who will initially work in tandem with Narayen, will have his work cut out for arresting the current decline.
Adobe is making it much easier for creators to build things by putting its best software straight into ChatGPT. The company just released a massive new plugin that combines over 70 features from popular apps like Photoshop, Premiere, Firefly, and Acrobat into one single spot. With this new setup, you can ask the chatbot to […]
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A Adobe anunciou hoje o lançamento de um plugin unificado para o ChatGPT, reunindo mais de 70 ferramentas criativas da seu suíte diretamente na interface do chatbot por inteligência artificial (IA) da OpenAI.
O plugin conta com ferramentas de aplicativos da Adobe que já possuíam integração com o ChatGPT, além de novos recursos do Adobe Express, Photoshop, Firefly, Premiere, Acrobat, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign e Adobe Stock, permitindo que os usuários possam criar peças publicitárias ou adaptar um vídeo para diferentes redes sociais sem precisar alternar entre aplicativos.
A novidade faz parte da estratégia da Adobe de expandir a compatibilidade dos seus recursos com as ferramentas de IA generativa; em junho, a empresa já havia mencionado que levaria esses recursos inclusive para rivais do ChatGPT, como o Claude. No Copilot, no Gemini e no Slack eles chegarão “em breve”, segundo a empresa.
Big news: a new Adobe plugin is now available in @OpenAI's @ChatGPT! 70+ tools, including @Photoshop, @AdobeFirefly, @Lightroom, and @Acrobat, all in one chat.
— Adobe (@Adobe) August 6, 2026
Mock up your photos. Repurpose a video for any platform. Turn a template into a polished PDF. Learn more:… pic.twitter.com/I1qrBctKyr
Ainda conforme a desenvolvedora, a novidade foi pensada para “facilitar e agilizar a transformação de ideias em conteúdo de alta qualidade dentro do ChatGPT”, mas a empresa destaca que, para necessidades criativas “mais profundas”, os seus aplicativos nativos seguem sendo a primeira opção.
Questionada pela AI Magazine se o uso dos recursos incorporados ao ChatGPT poderia rivalizar com o uso dos aplicativos nativos, a líder de produtos de IA agêntica da Adobe, Deepti Pradeep, respondeu o seguinte:
Dentro do ChatGPT, a experiência é transformadora: em vez de escolher plugins da Adobe separadamente, os usuários podem experimentar uma única experiência da Adobe que traz o Photoshop, Acrobat, Express e mais juntos.
Nós acreditamos que a consolidação adiciona mais valor aos usuários do ChatGPT. Fora dele, nossos aplicativos nativos permanecem essenciais para um controle mais profundo, preciso e avançado dos fluxos de trabalho.
Para iniciar, é possível utilizar algumas funcionalidades do plugin como convidado, embora a Adobe recomende fazer login com a sua conta para “desbloquear recursos adicionais”.
O plugin da Adobe já está disponível tanto no app quanto na versão web do ChatGPT.
Após ganhar, no mês passado, um recurso para transformar imagens em vídeos curtos, o Lightroom, editor de fotos da Adobe, recebeu uma nova ferramenta alimentada por inteligência artificial que permite ampliar o contexto em imagens.
Chamada Gen Expand, a novidade permite dar profundidade às fotos mais facilmente, com apenas um clique. Ela também permite redimensionar imagens para diferentes formatos (sites, redes sociais, apresentações, vídeos, entre outros).
Segundo Vivian Kuppermann, gerente sênior de Marketing da Adobe Brasil, o Gen Expand “se insere em uma dinâmica global da Adobe para dar cada vez mais voz ao público, democratizando ferramentas complexas e adicionando uma nova camada de sofisticação ao processo de criação, valorizando ainda mais o olhar de cada usuário”.
A nova ferramenta já está disponível para assinantes do Lightroom na versão desktop.
Em mais um dos seus comparativos, o canal do YouTube PhoneBuff colocou o MacBook Neo para disputar com o Dell XPS 13, ambos vendidos lá fora pelos mesmos US$700 (após o reajuste recente de Macs) com 8GB de memória — com diferença no armazenamento, 512GB contra os 256GB iniciais no caso da Apple.
Embora o XPS 13 tenha se mostrado um tanto competitivo em diversos cenários, o Neo se mostrou equivalente ou superior na maioria dos critérios estabelecidos no comparativo.
Quanto ao som dos dois, o computador da Apple, mesmo com metade da quantidade de alto-falantes, apresentou um resultado mais consistente em termos de qualidade — embora o XPS 13 tenha apresentado um volume maior.
Em se tratando da tela, tivemos a primeira grande derrota da Maçã: embora o MacBook Neo apresente maior visibilidade em ambientes com alta exposição à luz, o Dell XPS 13 venceu no conjunto geral ao contar com suporte ao toque, uma taxa de atualização de 120Hz e suporte ao padrão de gama de cores DCI-P3.
Sobre a bateria, embora perca em tempo de carregamento, o MacBook Neo compensa a desvantagem de capacidade física (36,5Wh frente aos 52Wh do XPS 13) com eficiência energética, até mesmo considerando a diferença entre a arquitetura x86 do Intel Core 5 320 e a arquitetura ARM64 presente no chip A18 Pro.
Falando em seus chips, aliás, o desempenho é outro ponto para a Apple: o computador da Dell vence em tempo de inicialização e nos testes de navegador por uma margem pequena (19 contra os 21 segundos do Neo), mas perde para o MacBook na descompactação de um arquivo de 6GB, sendo cerca de três vezes mais lenta na máquina com Windows, e também na abertura de um documento de 500 páginas no Word, com uma diferença de 5 segundos (12 no XPS e 7 no caso do Neo). A Maçã também levou a melhor com os programas da Adobe, concluindo mais rapidamente as alterações em projetos do Photoshop e do Premiere. Em jogos, foi o único momento em que o empate foi ruim o suficiente para ambos; títulos como Cyberpunk 2077 passaram com muita dificuldade da casa dos 30 quadros por segundo.
Câmera foi outro ponto positivo para o MacBook Neo, que apresentou imagens com mais nitidez e um microfone com uma filtragem de voz mais suave que sua contrapartida no universo Windows.
Já tratando de design, na avaliação do canal a vantagem é do Dell XPS 13 por sua leveza, bordas mais finas e a presença de retroiluminação no teclado (embora ele destaque positivamente o trackpad do MacBook) — ausência um tanto criticada por diversos entusiastas de tecnologia.
Em conclusão, ambas as máquinas possuem seus próprios pontos positivos — ou seja, não houve uma vitória clara para uma ou outra.
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- A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for “velocity thinning”, where the faster you draw your brush strokes, the thinner the lines.
- A new
acornshell tool that you can use to send JavaScript to Acorn, as well as start an MCP server. So if you’ve got a favorite LLM you like to use, you can now use it to drive Acorn. The JavaScript section of the release notes are a good read if you’re interested in that. In addition:
- The JS API has also been updated with examples for most calls.
- The shell tool has a
-jsioargument which lets you do things like:echo "acorn.takeLayeredScreenshot();" | acorn -jsio- Big ML models (used for Select Subject and Super Resolution Scaling) are now downloaded on demand. If AI isn’t your thing, they won’t take up any space on your Mac.
I feel lucky that Acorn is enough for me.
Very few software companies outside of Microsoft have the kind of leverage over entire industries. Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and After Effects are all load bearing to some extent within their respective fields despite the fact that many people I know loathe using them.
Via Nick Heer:
I have said it before and I will say it again: if I had known the path Adobe’s software would eventually go down, I might very well have picked a different career.
Previously:
O aplicativo de edição de vídeos Adobe Premiere foi atualizado recentemente na App Store com suporte nativo ao Apple Vision Pro — o que significa que usuários não dependem mais de soluções como o Mac Virtual Display para usar o app no headset.
Em vídeo publicado pelo usuário Justin Ryan no X, é possível ver o aplicativo em ação. Ele conta com uma interface de edição completa — com direito a suporte a painéis flutuantes, clipes espaciais e controles de profundidade para textos.
Here’s a first look at Adobe Premiere running natively on Apple Vision Pro.
— Justin Ryan (@justinryanio) July 23, 2026
The visionOS app features a full spatial editing interface with floating panels, support for spatial clips, and depth controls for text. Available now on the App Store. pic.twitter.com/odQ74V6tJO
Cabe destacar que o aplicativo presente no Vision Pro é a mesma versão universal já disponível para iPhones e iPads — e não o Adobe Premiere Pro, que é o aplicativo clássico, mais completo e avançado, para desktops.
Isso significa também que é possível baixar o Adobe Premiere gratuitamente no headset. Dentro do app, é possível optar por um plano de assinatura para usar recursos adicionais.
A Adobe anunciou a adição de novos recursos temporários impulsionados por inteligência artificial (IA) ao Project Indigo, seu app de câmera exclusivo para iOS, com a ferramenta AI Playground.
Os quatro principais recursos de IA do Project Indigo incluem a manipulação de objetos (Object Editing, ou “edição de objeto”, em tradução direta), a estilização de uma foto em uma determinada técnica artística (Styles, ou “estilos”), o feedback por IA das suas fotos (Photo Guidance, ou “orientação fotográfica”) e a edição a partir de comandos de linguagem natural (Custom Edit, ou “edição customizável”).
De forma opcional, a Adobe afirmou ainda que o acesso ao AI Playground estará restrito a uma parcela dos usuários do Project Indigo, sem menção aos critérios exatos de disponibilização. O teste ocorrerá durante algumas semanas e a ideia é compreender o uso de IA no app, embora ela reitere seus pilares de privacidade:
Quem aceitar participar precisará concordar em compartilhar apenas as interações com os botões do recurso. A Adobe afirma que não acessará os comandos digitados, nem as imagens, não fará upload delas para seus servidores e não as utilizará para treinar modelos de IA. Como não há login, todos os dados coletados são anônimos. Quem preferir não participar pode recusar e continuar usando o aplicativo normalmente.
Recursos como a estilização de fotos ou a remoção de objetos farão uso do modelo Nano Banana, do Google, ou dos próprios modelos Firefly da Adobe, mas ela reitera que o leque de modelos poderá se expandir no futuro.
Por fim, a Adobe explicou ainda que os modelos atuais de geração de imagens produzem apenas resultados com alcance dinâmico padrão (SDR 1Standard dynamic range, ou faixa dinâmica padrão.) e, para preservar a aparência das fotos capturadas com HDR 2High dynamic range, ou ampla faixa dinâmica. pelo Project Indigo, a empresa desenvolveu um modelo próprio de ML 3Machine learning, ou aprendizado de máquina. que converte automaticamente o resultado gerado pela IA para HDR, utilizando a foto original como referência, sem empregá-la para treinar modelos de IA.
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Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used to organize your work and automate app-specific tasks.
While the AI assistants are all powered by Adobe's "conversational creative agent," they work independently and operate "as a specialist" within each Creative Cloud app, according to Adobe's announcement. That means the Premiere AI assistant is fine-tuned for tasks like …
Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows" across your projects, according to Adobe, making it easier to go from ideation to production-ready designs without switching between apps.
This is the latest of several design overhauls to Adobe's all-in-one Firefly AI hub since it was first launched in September 2023. In addition to the UI updates, the new Firefly AI studi …
Adobe’s Firefly Graph is now available to Creative Cloud customers, offering a node-based workflow tool designed to help business create content at scale with generative AI (genAI).
With Firefly Graph, users can connect multiple tools in visual workflow, with each “node” performing a specific task before passing its output to the next node. This gives creative professionals more control over generated outputs, according to Adobe, and makes it easier to try out ideas by swapping, adjusting or adding components.
For example, a user could start with a text prompt box that connects to a node that generates an image using an AI model from Adobe or third-parties such as Google and OpenAI. Further along the chain, the user could add nodes to remove a background or upscale an image, for instance, before producing an image, video or other asset ready for use.
Changing one aspect, such as adding a reference image or adapting the text prompt, would change the final output.
It’s an approach similar to node-based workflow tools such as ComfyUI — a startup valued at $500 million which claims more than 4 million users. Others include Weavy, acquired by Figma last year for a reported $200 million.
With so many AI tools available to creative professionals, workflows can get complex and hard to replicate, said Elliot Sedegah, director for strategy and product marketing at Adobe. Firefly Graph provides access to more than 300 different node types, including images, video editing and AI generation tools across Adobe’s portfolio and third-party tools.
“Whether you’re working at a mom-and-pop shop or a larger enterprise, you’re looking for consistency and then bringing that into a workflow so that you’re not hopping in and out of different tools,” he said. “Putting all that together takes massive amount of time, and sometimes it’s very difficult to even know what you did.”
Once created, workflows can be shared across an organization as repeatable processes for other individuals or teams to use. “Think of that rock star creative that you have and the recipes they create: those are now canonized as workflows, as assets, that the rest of the organization can take and reuse over and over again,” said Sedegah.
In addition, while creative professionals are needed to created high quality assets, reusable workflows can be put into the hands of broader teams to create content for large audiences, said Sedegah.
Firefly Graph addresses a challenge that most large creative organizations face, said Lisa Gately, principal analyst at Forrester — namely that their best creative workflows “live inside the heads of a few experts.
“Teams can generate images and video with AI, but reproducing the exact sequences of creative decisions, model selections, edits, and refinements that lead to a high-quality result is difficult and inconsistent. Firefly Graph turns those workflows into reusable assets,” she said.
While other node-based workflows aim to address similar problems, Adobe’s pitch is that Firefly Graph provides customers with the benefit of integration into its product suite.
“Firefly is a full, broader AI creative studio, not just a node-based tool, so [Firefly Graph] is a part of a bigger picture,” said Sedegah. “The strength is having everything in one place with the tools that people know.”
“Where Adobe differentiates is in enterprise integration,” said Gately, with Adobe connecting Firefly Graph to a range of other Adobe tools. Those include Creative Cloud applications; Firefly Boards for ideation; and Firefly Creative Production.
“The workflow becomes part of a broader content supply chain instead of a standalone creation tool,” she said. ”Organizations committed to other tools are unlikely to migrate for a node-based canvas — making a change is about the broader content supply chain.”
Firefly Graph is available now to Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise subscribers. Creative Cloud for Enterprise is licensed by seat, requiring custom, volume-based enterprise agreements. Creative Cloud for Enterprise customers receive credits for Firefly Graph. Creative Cloud for teams customers can sign up for a public beta online. Creative Cloud pricing starts at $99.99 per license each month.
This article was updated on June 19 with pricing information from Adobe.
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