Adobe has announced an agreement to acquire Topaz Labs. The amount was not disclosed in the sources.
According to a LinkedIn post about the deal, Adobe intends to incorporate Topaz Labs' products into its portfolio of software and tools. The post describes the deal as an attempt to create a more robust ecosystem for generative content production and post-production pipelines.
The same post says the author has been working in Topaz Video for the past couple of months, collaborating with the Topaz Labs team on thorough hardware performance testing. The author says they have been impressed by the results from the company's classical GAN-based models and Starlight model variants, and would incorporate the tool into their own workstream.
The post raises the question of how Adobe will incorporate Topaz Labs into its own pipelines and where it will affect post-production workflows.