Adobe upscales its AI capabilities with Topaz Labs acquisition

Image: Adobe Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs, the company behind widely used image and video enhancement tools, including Topaz Photo, Topaz Video and Topaz Gigapixel. The announcement follows a previous partnership between the two companies, unveiled at Adobe Max in October 2025. At the time, Adobe integrated some of Topaz's popular upscale, denoise and sharpen models directly into Photoshop, providing access to the tools using Adobe's AI credits rather than a separate paid subscription for each app. Topaz Gigapixel was also added to the cloud-based version of Lightroom in February 2026. With the acquisition, Adobe says it plans to expand Topaz's AI enhancement models – which include upscaling, noise removal, sharpening, stabilization, frame interpolation and footage restoration – across its Firefly AI generation software, Firefly Services, and Creative Cloud products. Adobe also highlighted the integration of Topaz's proprietary Neurostream technology, which enables large