Adobe announced the acquisition of Topaz Labs, which provides AI tools covering upscaling, denoising, stabilization, and video restoration. Topaz products will remain available as standalone tools after the transaction closes.
Adobe has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Texas-based Topaz Labs. The company’s AI-based tools cover upscaling, sharpening, stabilization, frame interpolation, denoising, and video restoration.
Topaz has been one of the major successes of the AI era in this industry, and one of the reasons for that is that Topaz has stayed its own course and focused firmly on image manipulation. The company claims that its products, including Topaz Photo, Topaz Video, Topaz Gigapixel, Astra and Bloom, are used by 20 of the world’s 50 largest companies and are used by “millions of customers.” The company’s AI technology won a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award in December 2025 for high-quality TV catalog restoration.
Adobe is also a long-time fan. Added Topaz image and video upscaler to Firefly AI In July 2025. “Topaz Labs is really interesting,” Zeke Koch, Adobe’s vice president of GenAI (Firefly) product management, told us at the time. “We’ve been talking to them for a long time because they’re doing what we think is the best upsampling, which is lowering the resolution and making it higher resolution.”
A new UXP panel for AI upscaling was introduced in Adobe Premiere just last month.
Integration into Adobe tools
There are two elements to this agreement. In some ways, not much will change. Following the closing of the transaction, Topaz Labs products will continue to be sold as standalone products through the company’s website. Currently, these start at $12 per month and extend to $34 per month for unlimited access to all Topaz Labs tools. CEO Eric Yang will continue to lead the team.
What will be interesting is when this technology starts to spread through existing Adobe product lines. Topaz technology will be integrated across Adobe’s Creative AI portfolio, enabling creatives to enhance footage, restore and remaster archived content in Adobe Firefly, Firefly Services, and Creative Cloud apps. There’s no deadline for this, but we hope it’s not too long considering the two companies have been talking for a while.
neurostream technology
Another key element of the deal is Adobe’s acquisition of Topaz Labs’ proprietary Neurostream technology, which the company announced in March 2026. According to Topaz, this reduces VRAM memory demands for large AI models by up to 95%, enabling more efficient data centers, but perhaps more importantly, it allows AI models to run locally on consumer hardware rather than requiring cloud processing.
Adobe says this will allow it to “take advantage of the growing opportunity for efficient on-device AI video,” which could be interesting from both a privacy and sustainability perspective. Topaz is also working with NVIDIA to optimize the technology, and says the same model can be used with all NVIDIA GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. The purchase price was not disclosed.
