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Founded Firefly Enterprise and Firefly Foundry (custom enterprise models trained on customer IP). source — evidence dated 2026-04
Decides whether the problem is funded.
How Adobe (Firefly / Generative AI) buys data
Annual Firefly contributor bonus pays Adobe Stock contributors whose photos, videos, vectors, illustrations were used for training (3rd bonus Sept 2025; 4th covering Jun 2025–Jun 2026 paid Sept 2026). Sept 2026 job: Sr Manager ML Engineering, Applied Research — leads 'data acquisition and processing', curation and annotation for Firefly; Sept 2026 Senior Data PM job references RLHF signals and model evals. Hosts partner models (Google, OpenAI, BFL, Runway, Ideogram, ElevenLabs) in Firefly app since Oct 2025.
Generative AI org under VP Alexandru Costin; Applied Research team owns training-data lifecycle (acquisition, curation, annotation) for Firefly; Adobe Research contributes papers. Firefly Enterprise/Foundry is a separate business venture under Hannah Elsakr.
Known vendors: Adobe Stock contributors (licensed data)
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