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Scott Belsky: All of Adobe's Firefly generative AI models are homegrown

Scott Belsky · Adobe’s AI Revolution: Scott Belsky on Firefly, Photoshop & the Future of Creativity · Dec 6, 2023 · at 5:25

Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Adobe, answers whether Adobe's Firefly image generator models rely on third-party architecture or are built in-house.

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“So all of our generative AI models for Firefly are homegrown.”

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