Adobe Firefly
{{Short description|Image-generating machine learning model}}
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| screenshot alt = An AI-generated image of landscape photography showing mountain view with snow created by Adobe Firefly
| caption = An image generated with Adobe Firefly. Prompt: Paradise looking, but believable mountain landscape from drone perspective, sun is shining right over the edge of the highest mountain with snow on top
| developer = Adobe Inc.
| released = {{Start date and age|2023|3|}} (beta)
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| website = {{URL|https://firefly.adobe.com/|firefly.adobe.com}}
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Adobe Firefly is a web app and family of generative artificial intelligence models for creative production. Its capabilities include text-to-image and text-to-video.{{Cite web |last=Chedraoui |first=Katelyn |date=2025-02-12 |title=You can create AI videos with Adobe Firefly starting today |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/you-can-create-ai-videos-with-adobe-firefly-starting-today/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=cnet |language=en-US}} It is part of Adobe Creative Cloud, and also powers features in other Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop's Generative Fill tool.{{Cite web |last=Weatherbed |first=Jess |date=2023-05-23 |title=Adobe is adding its AI image generator Firefly to Photoshop |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734027/adobe-photoshop-generative-fill-ai-image-generator-firefly |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=The Verge |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621141937/https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734027/adobe-photoshop-generative-fill-ai-image-generator-firefly |url-status=live }} Its video models are currently being tested in an open beta phase, and its image generation tools are available via subscription.{{Cite web |last=Shrivastava |first=Rashi |title=Adobe Brings Its Generative AI Tool Firefly To Businesses |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/06/08/adobe-brings-its-generative-ai-tool-firefly-to-businesses/ |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621143040/https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/06/08/adobe-brings-its-generative-ai-tool-firefly-to-businesses/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Zeff |first1=Maxwell |title=Adobe launches subscriptions for Firefly AI |url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/adobe-launches-firefly-ai-subscriptions/ |website=TechCrunch |access-date=20 March 2025 |language=en-US |date=12 February 2025}}
Adobe Firefly is developed using Adobe's Sensei platform.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Firefly is trained with images from Creative Commons, Wikimedia and Flickr Commons as well as 300 million images and videos in Adobe Stock and the public domain.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-27 |title=What Are the Limitations of AI Image Generation in Adobe Firefly? |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/adobe-firefly-ai-art-generation-limitations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619191043/https://www.makeuseof.com/adobe-firefly-ai-art-generation-limitations/ |archive-date=2023-06-19 |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=MUO |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-02-02 |title=Is Adobe Using Your Files to Train Its AI? How to Opt Out if So |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/is-adobe-using-your-data-to-train-ai-opt-out/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620002057/https://www.makeuseof.com/is-adobe-using-your-data-to-train-ai-opt-out/ |archive-date=2023-06-20 |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=MUO |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-23 |title=Adobe's 'Firefly' Image Generator Is Going to Make Photoshop Much Easier to Use |url=https://gizmodo.com/adobe-firefly-ai-image-generator-photoshop-generative-f-1850462988 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621141915/https://gizmodo.com/adobe-firefly-ai-image-generator-photoshop-generative-f-1850462988 |archive-date=2023-06-21 |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Gizmodo |language=en}} This dependency only on training data for which Adobe owns the license or which is public domain has led them to describe the models' output as "commercially safe".{{cite web |last1=Eriksson |first1=Viktor |title=Adobe Firefly expands with 'commercially safe' video generator |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/3824254/adobe-firefly-expands-with-commercially-safe-video-generator.html |website=ComputerWorld |access-date=20 March 2025 |date=13 February 2025}}
Firefly for Enterprise was released on June 22, 2023.https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/dx/us/en/products/sensei/sensei-genai/firefly-enterprise/Firefly_Legal_FAQs_Enterprise_Customers.pdf
History
Adobe Firefly was first announced in September 2022 at Adobe's MAX conference. It was initially released as a public beta in March 2023,{{Cite web |title=Adobe opens up its Firefly generative AI model to businesses |date=8 June 2023 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23753564/adobe-firefly-enterprise-generative-ai-express-commercial |access-date=2023-06-08 }} and is currently available to all Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers.
Adobe Firefly is built on top of Adobe Sensei, the company's AI platform. Sensei has been used to power a variety of features in Adobe's creative software, such as object selection in Photoshop and image auto-enhancement in Lightroom.
Firefly expanded its capabilities to Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Express, particularly for generating photos, videos and audio to enhance or alter specific parts of the media.
Google planned to use Firefly in Bard (now Gemini) as its AI image generator, but ended up using their own Imagen model.{{Cite web |title=Google is incorporating Adobe's Firefly AI image generator into Bard |url=https://www.engadget.com/google-is-incorporating-adobes-firefly-ai-image-generator-into-bard-174525371.html |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Engadget |date=10 May 2023 |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522200651/https://www.engadget.com/google-is-incorporating-adobes-firefly-ai-image-generator-into-bard-174525371.html |url-status=live }}
The demo showed a capability for generating variations of photos.{{Cite web |title=Firefly vs Stable Diffusion - Adobe |url=https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/discover/firefly-vs-stable-diffusion.html |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=www.adobe.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603100634/https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/discover/firefly-vs-stable-diffusion.html |url-status=live }}
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