Adobe Opens Creative Cloud to Third-Party Chatbots via MCP and Expands AI Across Its Apps

Adobe has expanded AI across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and its Firefly creative tool at its MAX event in Miami, while releasing a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini use Adobe features.

Firefly is moving into Figma’s territory with Builder, a prototyping tool in private beta for presenting design ideas. The app is also gaining tools for on-brand graphs, targeted image editing and assembling videos from clips, images and sound effects, while its agent is becoming proactive and always on to gather more context about users’ work.

Across Adobe’s apps, Photoshop is adding relighting and prompt-based generative style sliders, Premiere a professional colour grading system and video object removal, and Lightroom fixes for blinking eyes and blemishes. Topaz Labs, a recent Adobe acquisition, is releasing two image models: Wonder 4 for upscaling and denoising, and ImageHDR for converting standard images to HDR.

Adobe vice president Deepa Subramaniam said the company is still working out which capabilities to expose through the MCP, which initially covers Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere, and will expand based on how people use it.

The move comes a month after Figma co-founder Dylan Field argued that MCP is an imperfect standard that benefits frontier labs more.