We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

At Adobe MAX, Google and Adobe expanded their partnership. Acrobat will show up as a suggested app in Google Drive and Gmail, with an "Edit with" entry in file previews. Adobe is expanding its connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise with Acrobat and more creative tools, and bringing creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search. Businesses will be able to use Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker agent inside Gemini Enterprise, and Adobe and Google DeepMind will explore an image model for Photoshop aimed at near-real-time edits.

Per Adobe's announcement, Google's image and video models continue in Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Express, and Gemini models will help power Acrobat's AI features. These are announced as coming, not shipped.

We think this is mostly good for people who do real work. Jumping from an email attachment straight into a proper PDF editor, or tweaking an image inside a chat, removes friction that wastes time every day. The DeepMind collaboration on near-real-time Photoshop edits is the most interesting piece for professionals, if it delivers.

The bigger story is distribution. Search results and AI assistants are turning into the place where software gets chosen. Adobe placing its tools inside Gemini and AI Mode is a hedge against a future where people never open an app at all and simply ask an assistant to do the task. Better to be the tool the assistant calls than the one it replaces.

That shift has downsides. When Gmail suggests Acrobat for PDFs, the default is decided by a partnership, not by the user. Smaller PDF and design tools will find it harder to get seen inside platforms that are pre-wired for big partners. Defaults are powerful, and two giants agreeing on them deserves scrutiny.

There are practical questions too. Moving documents between Google and Adobe services raises the obvious ones about where files go and which company's terms apply to them. Enterprises will want clear answers before employees start routing contracts through connectors. I'm watching for those details as features actually roll out.

The two companies already have a history of integrations, including Adobe connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise, Premiere on Android, and Adobe access to Google models such as Veo and Nano Banana. Adobe also used MAX to expand its own Creative Agent and preview local MCP integrations for Creative Cloud apps.