Adobe and Google link up: PDF editing lands in Drive, Gmail and Gemini

Adobe used its Max conference in Miami to roll out an expanded partnership with Google, wiring its tools deeper into Google's AI stack. On the Google side, the company said it's integrating Adobe's creative and productivity tools into Gemini, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Google Workspace and AI Mode in Google Search, while pulling Google's frontier models into more Adobe apps. The announcement came via Google's news account on X.

For anyone who lives in PDFs, the practical bit is Acrobat. It's getting a "direct pathway" to Google Drive and Gmail, which puts an "edit with Acrobat" option right inside file previews instead of making you bounce between apps. The traffic runs both ways: Google's AI models land in Acrobat to help people edit PDFs conversationally, dig through their documents and spin up assets like presentations, resumes and reports faster.

Acrobat is also getting a front door inside Gemini's chat window, and Google says it will show up in AI Mode in Google Search at some point down the line. Adobe claims the connectivity will stretch past Acrobat into its other products, though it's keeping the details vague for now. Subscribers can already tap Google AI models in Photoshop, Express and Premiere, and Adobe says that process should get simpler in the coming months.

There's a DeepMind thread too. Adobe plans to integrate its products with Google's AI research lab for what it calls "creative editing experiences," and it says third parties are already exploring a customized Google image model for Photoshop that could enable near-real-time edits. Adobe didn't explain how that integration would actually work.

Max was thick with AI announcements beyond the Google deal. Adobe is bringing its Firefly AI assistant to much of the Creative Cloud suite, and Firefly will soon take on multi-step tasks in the mold of agentic AI. The company is also dropping an AI assistant into some mobile apps, starting with Premiere, where it handles edits made in natural language — first in a private preview before a wider rollout.