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Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that selects a specialized editing tool for each task and uses a standard language model to pick the best result from measured image data, rather than repeatedly retrying a general-purpose editor. The approach works but requires about ten times the compute.

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Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute.

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