Adobe and Google have expanded their strategic partnership, bringing Adobe Acrobat into Google Drive and Gmail while putting Google’s latest AI models into Adobe’s creative tools. The deal was announced at Adobe MAX, the company’s creativity conference in Miami Beach, on 10 November.

Under the agreement, Acrobat will be available in Google Workspace, giving people a direct route from Drive and Gmail into Adobe’s PDF tools. Acrobat will appear as a suggested app in both services, including through an “Edit with” option in file previews. Adobe says more than 400 billion PDFs are opened with Acrobat each year.

Two-way deal: Adobe tools in Google, Google AI in Adobe

The partnership runs in both directions. On the Google side, Adobe will expand its connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise to include Acrobat and additional creative tools, so users can enhance images, customise designs and work with PDFs inside their AI conversations. Adobe’s creative tools will also come to AI Mode in Google Search, letting people move from searching for an idea to building it in one place.

On the Adobe side, Google’s latest image and video models will come to Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express. Adobe customers can already use Google models including Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana, and Gemini models will also help power AI features inside Acrobat, such as editing PDFs conversationally and turning documents into polished assets like presentations and reports.

DeepMind collaboration targets Photoshop editing

Adobe and Google DeepMind will also work together on new AI-powered image editing, starting with Photoshop. The companies say they are exploring a customised Google image model for Photoshop that could allow near-real-time edits, letting creative professionals adjust images with prompts and choose between variants without interrupting their workflow. No launch date has been given for that work.

“Our expanded partnership combines Google’s frontier AI with Adobe’s industry-leading creative and productivity tools at global scale,” said Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe’s president and incoming chief executive. Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud, said the deal would give creators and enterprise teams “a powerful, integrated environment to turn their ideas into high-impact content”.

Rollout timing still unclear

Neither company has said exactly when the Drive and Gmail integration will go live, describing it only as coming soon, and no financial terms were disclosed. The announcement builds on earlier collaboration between the two companies, including Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker in Gemini Enterprise, the launch of Premiere on Android, and Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere coming to Google devices.

Adobe also used its MAX conference to announce wider AI plans, including expanding its Firefly AI assistant across Creative Cloud and adding an AI assistant to some of its mobile apps, starting with Premiere.