Adobe launched a public beta of AI Assistant in Photoshop for web and mobile and added a broader set of editing tools to Firefly Image Editor. The update also widens model choice by supporting more than 25 AI models from Adobe and outside providers.
r/singularity pointed to Meituan's LongCat-Image-Edit-Turbo, a distilled open-source image editor that claims high-quality results in just 8 NFEs. The release pairs an Apache 2.0 Hugging Face model with a public arXiv report and community scrutiny over benchmark framing.
Adobe has put Photoshop AI Assistant into public beta on web and mobile and expanded Firefly Image Editor with new generative editing tools. Announced on March 10, 2026, the release also turns Firefly into a multi-model workspace that includes Adobe, OpenAI, Google, Runway, and Black Forest Labs image models.