Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat will now sit inside ChatGPT, letting punters ask the bot to edit photos, knock together designs or mangle PDFs through Adobe’s tools.

The outfit is the latest to scramble aboard ChatGPT’s app system, which OpenAI launched in October to let users pull in external apps while firing questions at the bot. Businesses are falling over themselves to reach ChatGPT’s crowd of more than 800 million users, and Adobe is desperate not to look slow while its rivals race ahead.

Canva and Figma were among the first to secure spots in ChatGPT’s October rollout, alongside Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow.

Adobe has been trying to prove it still has bite in the AI world as generative tools make life more complicated for its image software while smaller rivals such as Canva and Figma nibble away at market share.

The firm insists it is pushing its AI slate hard, with annual recurring revenue from AI topping $250 million in the third quarter. Investors remain twitchy because they want more money flowing from these efforts, and the share price has slid about 23 per cent this year.