Adobe embraces external AI Models, Gemini advances, and Hunyuan innovates in 3D

All the news from the AI world for creatives

Erik Knöbl | AI Video Creator

Mar 23, 2025

Good day, creatives

In today’s Newsletter:

1️⃣ Adobe finally expands AI options for creators

2️⃣ Gemini keeps getting better

3️⃣ New Hunyuan model for 3D assets

4️⃣ Quick news you may have missed

5️⃣ Quiz: Can you identify AI Art?

6️⃣ Prompt Fight: Surfing Astronaut

7️⃣ Video AI of the Week

Let’s go.

Adobe finally expands AI options for creators

Adobe has announced a significant expansion of its generative AI capabilities by integrating third-party creative AI models into its ecosystem. While Adobe Firefly remains a core offering, creators will now have the option to use non-Adobe generative AI models as part of their process.

The initial selection includes the following models:

Black Forest Labs (Flux 1.1 Pro)
Fal (upscaler)
Google Cloud (Veo 2, Imagen 3)
Runway (Runway Frames).

These models will be available within Project Concept and Adobe Express in the coming weeks. Adobe plans to expand this selection further over time.

Gemini keeps getting better

Google is shipping lately and the current batch of updates shines up the Gemini app. It has two major upgrades:

Deep Research in Gemini is now available to free users too, allowing it to answer complex questions and use multiple apps like Search, YouTube and Notes in a single go.
Gemini has a new mode called Personalization. It asks you to connect your Google search history with Gemini and uses it when you’re asking Gemini questions.

New Hunyuan model is capable of generating 3D assets

3D is coming fast to AI Video. Hunyuan has announced the development of a new model designed to generate high-resolution, textured 3D assets. It already outperforms previous state-of-the-art models—both open-source and proprietary—in geometry detail, condition alignment, and texture quality.

Quick news you may have missed

Gemini is now available for Freepik’s users. Creators can retouch their images with simple prompting, and get insane results.
Leonardo’s Content Reference is now available with Flux + Phoenix, unlocking even more creative control over your images. This tool keeps the composition and structure intact while allowing you to explore endless artistic possibilities.
Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps list by Andreessen Horowitz just dropped, detailing the changes to the consumer AI landscape. The report looks at web and mobile.

Quiz: Can you identify AI Art?

The answer is at the end of the post.

Prompt Fight: Surfing Astronaut

Let’s see how the top AI Art generators compare to each other.

Dynamic Photography of an astronaut surfing on a cosmic wave of nebulas and galaxies, surreal hyper realistic image with vibrant color contrasts, Illuminated by the ethereal glow of distant galaxies, a palette of surreal, abstract hues, cosmos, dynamic action shot, capturing the astronaut mid-surf, sea wave glittering with galaxies and stars