ADOBE'S REDESIGNED AI STUDIO REMEMBERS YOUR DESIGNS
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Adobe is launching a redesigned AI studio in private beta that lets users name and reuse custom characters, objects, and backgrounds across projects. The new Firefly experience consolidates editing and generation into a single interface with persistent context.
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Open-source models now outperform OpenAI's frontier GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval tasks while costing a fraction of the price. Neon and Castform demonstrated the efficiency gap in a new benchmark.
Meta introduced Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model. The coding-focused AI is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.
Alibaba's Qwen division launched Qwen 3.0 Image Pro, an upgraded multimodal AI model designed to handle advanced image understanding and generation tasks. The release signals continued competition in the AI model space.
Hark, a startup founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previewed Handoff, a computer use agent claiming superior performance to GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.8. The company plans a summer release.