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Adobe Firefly
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Flux (Black Forest Labs)
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TaglineSpreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.Commercially safe image gen, deeply integrated with Photoshop.AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer.
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PricingFree + $19-$89/user/moFree + included with Creative CloudFree + $20/mo ProAPI + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0)
Best forOps teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.Anyone in Creative Cloud. Brands that need copyright clarity.Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.Developers + power users who want control and privacy.
Strengths
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
  • Trained on licensed content — commercially safe
  • Generative Fill in Photoshop is incredible
  • Native to Adobe ecosystem
  • Sources every claim
  • Fast, current answers
  • Pro Search runs multi-step research
  • Spaces for persistent context
  • Runs locally on a beefy GPU
  • Very photoreal
  • Best open-weight model
Weaknesses
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
  • Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney
  • Tied to Adobe subscription
  • Not a general chatbot
  • Answers can be shallow on complex topics
  • Harder to use than hosted tools
  • Needs infra
Kai's verdictA-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.S-tier inside Photoshop (Generative Fill). B-tier standalone.S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.A-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters.
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