Inside Adobe's Partnerships With OpenAI, Anthropic and NVIDIA | Sahil Gupta

About this episode

Liam Lawson interviews Sahil Gupta about Adobe's partnerships with major AI companies and the dynamics of competition and collaboration in the tech industry.

In the AI race, some of Adobe's closest partners are also its biggest competitors. So how does it decide who to work with? Sahil Gupta is the Senior Director of Partnerships at Adobe, where he leads technology partnerships with the biggest names in AI including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud and NVIDIA. In this episode Liam sits down with Sahil to break down how these partnerships actually come together, what Adobe announced at Adobe Summit, how you navigate working with a partner you also compete with, and what the future of work really looks like from someone sitting at the center of the AI ecosystem. Topics covered: How Adobe structures partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft and surfaces its agentic capabilities inside each The NVIDIA partnership including 3D digital twins, agent governance and the next generation of Firefly models How you co-innovate with a partner like Anthropic that also competes with you on design tools The difference between working with a 30 year partner like IBM and a company only a few years old Why Adobe brings over 30 models including startups like Runway into Firefly What the future of work looks like and the radiology lesson…

People in this episode

Host: Liam Lawson

Guest: Sahil Gupta

Topics covered

• Adobe partnerships
• AI competition
• co-innovation
• technology partnerships
• future of work
• 3D digital twins

Keywords

• future of work
• Adobe
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• NVIDIA
• partnerships
• AI
• technology
• co-innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adobe, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, IBM, Runway

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