Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant now widely available as add-on

In a significant announcement today, Adobe disclosed its decision to make the comprehensive capabilities of Acrobat AI Assistant widely available to its billions of customer base through an add-on subscription across Acrobat Reader, desktop, and web.

Moreover, the Acrobat AI Assistant is now available in beta on mobile, thus expanding the reach of Adobe's AI technology to users' fingertips on the go.

Since the first introduction of Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, the customers' interaction with PDFs and other documents has entirely transformed. As witnessed by Adobe, customers are adeptly utilizing it to swiftly grasp the required information in a focused manner across various kinds of documents.

The tax documents are only one of the many examples where the Acrobat AI Assistant features are proving to be valuable productivity tools. Knowledge workers employ these features to summarise long meeting transcripts, analysts surface and disseminate crucial findings in vast research reports, and sales teams locate key data from technical documents to inform strategies and make presentations. Consumers use it to comprehend terms and conditions in lengthy agreements, while teachers and students utilise the AI assistant to forge study guides.

Adobe has now made the full range of Acrobat AI Assistant capabilities accessible to customers with free Reader or paid Acrobat for individual plans under a new AI Assistant add-on subscription, the early access pricing of which commences at US$4.99 per month. The subscription plans are available in English on desktop and web, with the inclusion of other languages planned in future. AI Assistant on Reader mobile (beta) is also being offered in English for free for a limited period directly in the Reader mobile app.

The powerful PDF AI capabilities of Acrobat AI Assistant empower users to work more productively with PDFs and other documents like Word, PowerPoint, etc. Salient features of the AI Assistant include an intuitive conversational interface for answering queries about the document, generating concise overviews of long documents, providing intelligent citations, easy navigation, and consolidation and formatting of information into top takeaways.

Acrobat AI Assistant, now in beta on Acrobat Reader mobile with voice commands, enables customers to use their voice to ask their PDF questions, summarise documents, and more. Furthermore, Acrobat AI Assistant is now available through Acrobats' existing Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions, enabling billions more users to quickly comprehend and act on shared information.

Acrobat AI Assistant supplements third-party Long-Short-Term Memory (LLM) technologies with the same artificial intelligence and machine learning models behind the award-winning Liquid Mode. This understanding greatly enhances the output quality and reliability of Acrobat AI Assistants. Adobe's custom attribution engine generates citations so customers can easily verify the source of the responses. Adobe further prohibits third-party LLMs from training on Adobe customer data.

Acrobat AI Assistant aims to assist everyone, from late tax filers to project managers, small business owners, or students, in spending less time searching and more time learning. It is an effective tool for navigating vast information, helping users transform their interaction with documents in a meaningful way.