Adobe’s new Firefly generative AI models can create high-quality images, editable vector graphics, and customizable design templates.

At the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles today, Adobe announced a new, more powerful Firefly Image 2 mode that’s said to be able to generate higher-quality images than the original Firefly model.

With the launch of Adobe Illustrator in 1987, “it was like magic,” as designer Ron Chan puts it. In this mini-documentary by Terry Hemphill that tells the story of the revolutionary software ...