Adobe launches AI Foundry

👋 Good morning or evening, wherever you are. It’s Monday.

Adobe introduced AI Foundry, a new service that lets companies train Firefly models on their own data to generate text, image, video, and 3D content.

Early partners include Walt Disney Imagineering, Home Depot, and NBCUniversal, each building brand-safe AI systems for content production and marketing.

The launch positions Adobe as a key infrastructure player in enterprise creative AI, where differentiation now comes from proprietary data, not generic prompts.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

This AI reel is insanely addictive. Made by one person with OpenAI Sora 2.

And that person is not a normal person. It’s Billy Boman.

Billy’s one of the fastest ad minds on the planet. He’s seen it all, and when you add AI to that experience, it becomes something superhuman. What I love most is how he still knows how to have fun (his LinkedIn posts are hilarious) and sees the game with more clarity than most artists ever will.

This one’s long overdue. I’ve been meaning to highlight his work for a while because what he’s doing with AI and storytelling deserves way more attention.

Show him some love!

Watch the video. Posted on LinkedIn.

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💡 Here’s what you should know

Claude really said “trust me.”

One day, AI will cure cancer.

Ray Dalio just cloned himself.

Veo 3.1 just took the #1 spot on the LMArena leaderboard.

More Veo 3.1 updates for you.

Unitree’s new H2 humanoid just woke up.

💰 The numbers

• OpenEvidence raised $200M at a $6B valuation in a round led by Google Ventures to scale its “ChatGPT for doctors” platform.

• CoMind raised a $102.5M Series A to develop an AI-powered brain-monitoring platform.

• Counsel Health raised $25M in Series A funding to expand its AI-augmented healthcare platform.

• Finster AI raised $15M in combined Series A + Seed funding to expand its AI research and automation tools for financial institutions.

• Adaptyx Biosciences raised $14M in Seed funding for its continuous molecular-monitoring wearable.

• YC alum Cercli, an AI-native Rippling for MENA, raised an oversubscribed $12M Series A led by Picus Capital to rebuild HR and payroll infrastructure across 50+ countries.

• AdsGency raised $12M in a Seed round to build an agentic-AI platform for digital advertising.

• 1001 AI raised $9M in Seed funding led by CIV, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital to build AI infrastructure for critical industries in MENA.

🧠 Thought starters

3 things to think about…

1.) Blackstone has folded AI into the math of investing.

Every deal now begins with a model of how intelligence compounds, erodes, or redefines value. Capital is learning that judgment, not scale, decides who survives the next cycle.

2.) Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are underwriting the future of education.

AI handles grading, storytelling, and curriculum design with mechanical precision. Beneath the training sessions lies a quiet power shift: influence over the educators who shape the workforce.

Whoever trains the teachers trains the future.

3.) DeepSeek-OCR converts entire documents into compact visual representations, achieving 97% precision at a tenth of the usual token cost.

The breakthrough reframes efficiency itself as a new form of cognition, where compression becomes the architecture of understanding.

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

Join the AI Creative Club (you’ll find me there). It’s not only for artists and filmmakers…it’s for anyone who recognizes this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn as much as you can about AI to multiply your impact...to become superhuman. Remember, creativity is just intelligence having fun. This club is for ultra curious people, and if you’ve made it this far…you’re pretty damn curious and probably the smartest one in your circle of friends. It would be my honor to have you in there.

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