Adobe is diving deeper into agentic AI and expanding its partnership roster in a new deal with the AI developer Anthropic. Adobe on Wednesday introduced its latest conversational, agentic creative assistant, which is the technological foundation for its work with Anthropic.

Firefly is the hub for all things Adobe AI, with integrations across other popular Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop, Acrobat and Premiere Pro. The new Firefly AI assistant is agentic, which means that it can perform tasks with minimal human oversight. You can upload a batch of photos and have the AI edit them for you, automatically adjusting the lighting and cropping, for example. One way to think about it is as a new school AI tool that you can use to do old-school, or non-generative, editing. 

Adobe has been building assistants into its creative software for a while now. It introduced AI assistants in Adobe Express and Photoshop back in October. Agentic AI tools like the kind Adobe is building are becoming rapidly popular across the entire AI industry, with tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw shaking up legacy tech companies.

This new partnership brings Adobe's creative agent to Claude. This is Claude's first major creative AI tool, expanding the popular app's capabilities beyond the coding and enterprise prowess it's known for.

Adobe wrote in a press release that it is "enabling creators to access the best of Adobe directly across the surfaces where they work every day," by bringing its tools to third-party models like Claude. Anthropic's Paul Smith, chief commercial officer, added: "Together with Adobe, we're exploring new ways to help creators conceptualize a project in Claude and reach straight into Adobe Firefly to execute it."

More details about the Adobe connector to Claude should be released in the coming weeks, including the exact date it will become available. The Firefly assistant will be released as a public beta later this month.

There are a few other Firefly updates that are available now. Firefly's video editor is getting better audio, advanced coloring options and more integrations with Adobe Stock. Firefly's image editing suite is also getting a few upgrades. New Kling models, Kling 3.0 and 3.0 Omni, will also be added to the 30-plus outside AI models that creators can use through Firefly.