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AI Daily Brief — 24 April 2025

A creative-tools megaday. Adobe MAX London packed 1,600 attendees and 100+ AI features into one keynote. Perplexity claimed its first phone-OEM lane with Motorola. GitHub flipped Copilot interaction-data training to default-on. And Trump’s K-12 AI Education EO from the prior day kept reverberating through policy press.

Top stories

  • Perplexity announces global Motorola partnership. Pre-installed on the next-gen Razr family (Razr, Razr Plus, Razr Ultra) and Edge 60 series, with Perplexity Assistant working on the Razr cover display when folded; Motorola users get three months of Perplexity Pro free. Razr Ultra $1,300 / Plus $1,000 / Razr $700, on sale May 15. Motorola also kept parallel deals with Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Meta for different query types. via CNBC
  • Adobe launches Firefly Image Model 4 and 4 Ultra at MAX London. Image 4 supports up to 2K resolution with stronger structure/style/camera-angle control. Image 4 Ultra targets highly detailed complex scenes. A redesigned Firefly web app now hosts third-party models from OpenAI (GPT image gen), Google (Imagen 3, Veo 2) and Black Forest Labs (Flux 1.1 Pro). Firefly Video Model went GA; the Firefly Vector Model launched alongside Firefly Boards public beta for AI moodboarding. via TechCrunch
  • Adobe MAX London ships 100+ Creative Cloud AI features. 5x faster performance in flagship apps, text-based editing and AI sound cleanup in Premiere Pro, Generate Video / Translate Video / Translate Audio in the Firefly web app, plus a Creative Apprenticeship program and three months of LinkedIn Premium for Creative Cloud members. via Adobe
  • GitHub Copilot interaction-data training policy takes effect. From Apr 24 onward, GitHub uses Copilot Free, Pro and Pro+ interaction data — inputs, outputs, code snippets and surrounding context — to train its AI models by default; users must opt out under Privacy settings. Business and Enterprise customers explicitly excluded under existing contracts. Private-repo code at rest is not trained on, but live interactions in those repos can be. via GitHub
  • Trump K-12 AI Education EO lands in policy news cycle. Apr 23 EO ‘Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth’ established a White House Task Force on AI Education, a Presidential AI Challenge, NSF priority on AI-in-education research, and Education Department prioritization of AI in discretionary teacher-training grants. via White House

Who shipped

Adobe ran the creative-tools day with its biggest Firefly bundle to date. Perplexity got its first smartphone-OEM lane. GitHub flipped the training-data default. Frontier-lab side stayed quiet.

Open-source pulse

No major open-weights drops dated Apr 24.

Money, infra & hardware

Orkes raised $40M Series B (total $60M) for agentic-workflow orchestration via Conductor — led by AVP with Prosperity7, Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US.

Quiet corners

No major OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen or Mistral release on the date. No NVIDIA / AMD product announcement.

By the numbers

  • 100+ — Creative Cloud AI features unveiled at MAX London
  • 1,600+ — attendees at The Magazine London
  • 5x — faster performance in flagship Adobe apps
  • 2K — Firefly Image 4 max resolution
  • $700 / $1,000 / $1,300 — Razr / Plus / Ultra pricing (May 15 launch)
  • $40M / $60M — Orkes Series B / total funding round
  • Most-mentioned company: Adobe

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 24 April 2025.