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Adobe Launches New AI-Powered Acrobat Assistant with Plans Starting at $4.99 Monthly

This week, Adobe has introduced its AI assistant, designed to help users navigate and understand digital documents more effectively. Available for a starting price of $4.99 per month, this assistant offers functionalities such as summarizing content, locating specific information, and generating citations within PDFs and other documents.

Additionally, Adobe is rolling out a free mobile version of this tool in beta, capable of voice command interactions, and is integrating the service into browser extensions for Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

The company highlighted that the current subscription rate is an early access offer and will be subject to future price adjustments. Adobe’s AI assistant, which first appeared in beta this February, is particularly useful for taxpayers reviewing complex documents, students creating study materials, and consumers reviewing terms of service agreements.

Adobe’s senior vice president, Abhigyan Modi, mentioned to CNBC that the company plans to enhance the assistant’s capabilities to handle multiple documents simultaneously, expanding its utility for users.

“A document approach is somewhat different because we’re not creating our own language models,” he said. “We’re still grounding in your content and giving you information out of that.”

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