Sooner or later over the past 20 years, productivity applications enabled humans (and machines!) to create information on the speed of digital—faster than any person could possibly devour or understand it. Modern inboxes and document folders are crammed with information: digital haystacks with needles of insight that too often remain undiscovered.

Generative AI is an incredibly exciting technology that’s already delivering tremendous value to our customers across creative and experience-building applications. Now Adobe is embarking on our next chapter of innovation by introducing our first generative AI capabilities for digital documents and bringing the brand new technology to the masses.

AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat, now in beta, is a brand new generative AI–powered conversational engine deeply integrated into Acrobat workflows, empowering everyone with the data inside their most significant documents.

Accelerating productivity across popular document formats

Because the creator of PDF, the world’s most trusted digital document format, Adobe understands document challenges and opportunities well. Our continually evolving Acrobat PDF application, the gold standard for working with PDFs, is already utilized by greater than half a billion customers to open around 400 billion documents every year. Starting immediately, customers will give you the chance to make use of AI Assistant to work much more productively. All they should do is open Acrobat on their desktop or the net and begin working.

With AI Assistant in Acrobat, project managers can scan, summarize, and distribute meeting highlights in seconds, and sales teams can quickly personalize pitch decks and reply to client requests. Students can shorten the time they spend hunting through research and spend more time on evaluation and understanding, while social media and marketing teams can quickly surface top trends and issues into each day updates for stakeholders. AI Assistant can even streamline the time it takes to compose an email or scan a contract of any kind, enhancing productivity for knowledge staff and consumers globally.

Innovating with AI—responsibly

Adobe has continued to evolve the digital document category for over 30 years. We invented the PDF format and open-sourced it to the world. And we brought Adobe’s decade-long legacy of AI innovation to digital documents, including the award-winning Liquid Mode, which allows Acrobat to dynamically reflow document content and make it readable on smaller screens. The experience we’ve gained by constructing Liquid Mode after which learning how customers get value from it’s foundational to what we’ve delivered in AI Assistant.

Today, PDF is the number-one business file format stored within the cloud, and PDFs are where individuals and organizations keep, share, and collaborate on their most significant information. Adobe stays committed to secure and responsible AI innovation for digital documents, and AI Assistant in Acrobat has guardrails in place so that each one customers—from individuals to the most important enterprises—can use the brand new features with confidence.

Like other Adobe AI features, AI Assistant in Acrobat has been developed and deployed in alignment with Adobe’s AI principles and is governed by secure data protocols. Adobe has taken a model-agnostic approach to developing AI Assistant, curating best-in-class technologies to offer customers with the worth they need. When working with third-party large language models (LLMs), Adobe contractually obligates them to employ confidentiality and security protocols that match our own high standards, and we specifically prohibit third-party LLMs from manually reviewing or training their models on Adobe customer data without their consent.

The longer term of intelligent document experiences

Today’s beta features are part of a bigger Adobe vision to rework digital document experiences with generative AI. Our vision for what’s next includes the next:

• Insights across multiple documents and document types: AI Assistant will work across multiple documents, document types, and sources, immediately surfacing a very powerful information from all over the place.
• AI-powered authoring, editing, and formatting: Last yr, customers edited tens of billions of documents in Acrobat. AI Assistant will make it easy to quickly generate first drafts, in addition to helping with copy editing, including immediately changing voice and tone, compressing copy length, and suggesting content design and layout options.
• Intelligent creation: Key features from Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative models, and Adobe Express will make it easy for anyone to make their documents more creative, skilled, and private.
• Elevating document collaboration with AI-supported reviews: Digital collaboration is how work gets from draft to done. And with a 75% year-over-year increase within the variety of documents shared, more collaboration is going on in Acrobat than ever. Generative AI will make the method easy, analyzing feedback and comments, suggesting changes, and even highlighting and helping resolve conflicting feedback.

As now we have with other Adobe generative AI features, we look ahead to bringing our a long time of experience, expertise, and customers along for the ride with AI Assistant.

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