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Adobe Research, UC San Diego build EditAgent needing about 10x general-editor retry compute

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI image-editing agent that selects specialized tools for each task and uses a standard language model to choose results based on measured image data. It works but needs about 10 times the compute of retrying a general-purpose editor.

Frontier EditorialSource: The Decoder
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Adobe Research, UC San Diego build EditAgent needing about 10x general-editor retry compute: Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI image-editing agent that selects specialized tools for each task and uses a standard language model to choose results based on measured image data. It works but needs about 10 times the compute of retrying a general-purpose editor.