Adobe Puts Acrobat Into Google Drive and Gmail and Brings More Tools to Gemini

Adobe said in a press release that Acrobat will appear as a suggested app in Google Drive and Gmail, including an "Edit with" option when users preview a file. Google's Gemini models will power the AI Assistant in Acrobat. Adobe says more than 400 billion PDFs are opened with Acrobat each year, and the deal gives Acrobat a direct route into the Drive and Gmail accounts where many of those files are stored and shared.

The agreement runs in both directions. Adobe gets distribution inside Google's productivity suite and chatbot. Google gets familiar Adobe tools in Gemini as it competes with OpenAI and Anthropic to become the main interface for office and creative work.

Under the deal, Adobe will extend the connectors it has already launched in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise to cover Acrobat and more creative tools. Users will be able to enhance images, customise designs and work with PDFs within a conversation. Adobe will also bring its creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search, so a user can search for an idea and start making it in the same place. Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker, an agent aimed at customer-experience teams, has been added to Gemini Enterprise.

In the other direction, Google's latest image and video models are coming to Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere and Adobe Express. Adobe customers can already use Google's Gemini Omni, Veo and Nano Banana models under what Adobe calls its partner model strategy, which lets customers choose models from several AI developers inside Adobe's apps. Adobe and Google DeepMind are also exploring a customised Google image model for Photoshop. Adobe said it could allow near-real-time, prompt-based edits and let users choose between variants. The companies described this as exploratory work, not a committed product.

The announcement also listed earlier work between the two companies. Premiere has launched on Android, and Premiere's mobile app now has a dedicated space for creating YouTube Shorts. Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere are coming to Googlebook, Google's laptop platform.

The Drive integration may be lighter than the announcement suggests. 9to5Google said Drive will prompt users to open PDFs in Acrobat but does not appear to place Adobe's editing tools inside Drive itself. The site said the handoff is likely to be a quick transfer to Acrobat, with a similar "direct pathway" planned from Gmail.

The release was issued jointly by Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe's president and incoming chief executive, and Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud. Neither company gave dates for general availability. 9to5Google expects the Drive and Gmail integrations to arrive first, followed shortly by the Gemini features.