A new set of AI updates from Adobe is designed to help people create, study, and collaborate faster across documents. On Wednesday, January 21, the company announced chat based features for Acrobat and new creation tools in Adobe Express.
In Adobe Express, a new feature can turn documents into presentation slides. Users can also build decks using over 500K professional templates and generate custom images.
In Acrobat, Adobe has rolled out AI chat tools that let users edit PDFs by describing what they want. Acrobat users can also generate a podcast style audio overview of documents, transcripts, and notes. Adobe also said new features in PDF Spaces allow users to invite others to add files, leave notes, or gather comments.
Adobe said AI usage across Acrobat has increased 4 times over the past year. It also cited a Forrester TEI study stating that the Acrobat AI agent improved efficiency in document summarisation and analysis by 45%. Adobe added that monthly active users of Acrobat and Adobe Express grew 20% year over year.
The company said these updates are aimed at making learning, collaboration, and content creation easier for students and consumers. Adobe has been adding generative AI across its products, and it says its AI models and tools are trained on commercially safe, licensed data.
In December 2025, Adobe and OpenAI announced that Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat were added within ChatGPT. This lets users prompt the AI chatbot to edit photos, generate custom designs, and organise documents through the natively available apps.
On security and controls, Adobe reiterated that user data is not used to train its AI models. “Acrobat AI Assistant and PDF Spaces only look at the documents you tell it to. Customers have controls and discretion to enable and disable storing chat history and documents in the cloud,” the company said. Adobe added that Acrobat also offers enterprise controls to manage who has AI access within an organisation.
Separately, Adobe’s Creators’ Toolkit Report, based on a survey of over 16,000 creators across the US, the UK, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, India, and Australia, found that Indian creators most often use creative GenAI for editing, upscaling, and enhancement at 77%, generating new assets like images and video at 75%, and ideation and brainstorming at 58%. The report also said Indian creators use AI agents for automating repetitive tasks at 66%, brainstorming content ideas at 63%, and surfacing content performance insights at 57%. While 95% said AI helped grow their follower count, creators also cited barriers such as high cost at 38%, uncertainty about how the model was trained at 30%, and unreliable output quality at 28%.
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