Adobe and Google Expand Partnership, Bringing Gemini Models to Photoshop and Acrobat to Workspace

What happened

Adobe MAX 2026 runs Nov 10–12 in Miami Beach. On Nov 10, Adobe and Google announced an expanded strategic partnership at the conference, opening distribution in both directions: Adobe's tools into more Google products, Google's models into more Adobe apps. Adobe president and incoming CEO Anil Chakravarthy and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian each issued a statement.

Acrobat will join Google Workspace, letting people open PDFs in Drive and Gmail and edit them with Acrobat, with an 'Edit with' entry in file previews; Acrobat opens more than 400 billion PDFs a year. Gemini models will power AI features in Acrobat, including conversational PDF editing, understanding document content and helping create presentations, resumes and reports. Adobe's connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise will expand to Acrobat and more creative tools, and Adobe's creative tools will also come to AI Mode in Google Search.

In the other direction, Google's image and video models — including Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana — will come to Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express; Adobe and Google DeepMind will also explore a customized Google image model for Photoshop that could edit pictures with text prompts in near real time and offer several variants, a feature still in development with no launch date given. Adobe's creative and productivity solutions serve more than 1 billion monthly active users.

Key facts

1. Acrobat joins Workspace: PDFs can be opened in Drive and Gmail and edited with Acrobat, with an 'Edit with' entry in file previews; Acrobat opens more than 400 billion PDFs a year
2. Gemini powers Acrobat: Google's models bring AI features to Acrobat: conversational PDF editing, understanding document content and helping create presentations, resumes and reports
3. Adobe tools in Google's AI: Adobe's connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise expand to Acrobat and more creative tools; the creative tools will also come to AI Mode in Google Search
4. Google models in Adobe apps: Image and video models including Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana come to Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express
5. DeepMind collaboration: The two will explore a customized Google image model for Photoshop that edits pictures with text prompts in near real time and offers several variants; still in development, with no launch date given
6. Scale: Adobe's creative and productivity solutions serve more than 1 billion monthly active users; the deal builds on the two companies' longstanding collaboration