Adobe brings AI-image generation app to phones, adds partners

Adobe Inc. released its first dedicated artificial intelligence smartphone app on Tuesday that includes AI models from the company and partner firms, in a bid to tap into a growing trend of sharing AI images and videos over social media.

The new app, called Firefly, packages Adobe’s own AI model together with models from new partner firms Ideogram, Luma AI, Pika and Runway, and is available on iOS and Android phones.

Previously, the service was available only as a web version, that used models from Alphabet’s GOOGL.O> Google and OpenAI in addition to…