Adobe’s mobile take on AI won’t put a real AI image generator on your phone, but it will at least connect your phone to one.
You can’t go a week without seeing a new story on everyone’s favourite buzzword — AI — and this week, it’s Adobe talking the tech up. Namely image and video creation, provided you’re someone using Adobe’s system already.
If you are that person, or you work in a team that does, Adobe’s “Firefly” AI has launched on mobile from its home online via web browsers, making some of those AI tools available on more portable and different devices.
The concept is less a portable version of Midjourney — which it already kind of is, given it can run in Discord — and more a idea creation app to generate images and videos on the go. Firefly’s app will allow people to generate images from styles, and expand or remove items, while also play out a concept in testing that can go from a 3D scene to an image.
In short, it’s a lot of AI functionality for creative types already possibly playing with artificial intelligence, or just keen to dabble, maybe while they’re stuck on a train or waiting for their next meeting.
Adobe notes that eventual updates will include making avatars and sound effects from text, with these coming later in the month, while audio clips made from their voice will also be able to sync to generated video clips.
It’s paired with something Adobe has launched called “Firefly Boards” which is a web-specific part of a creative process designed to turn AI into mood-boards, allowing teams to work together to make things.
While Firefly Boards is web-based, Firefly Mobile is now on iPhone (iOS) and Android, and is compatible with an assortment of AI models, including Adobe’s own, but also the complex image and video creation models Google only recently launched itself.
These will cost money, given AI is typically an expensive process and consumes tremendous amounts of power, so just be aware of that going in.
