If you decide to upscale using generative AI, you can now use either Firefly (Adobe's engine) or outsource it to Topaz Labs for about the double the cost in credits.
I wonder if this is the future of Topaz's model. I'm grandfathered in to Topaz's products as a founder but a year from now I'll have to pay for it. If the rest of Topaz's tools get added to Photoshop as options (presumably sharpen and denoise) I don't understand why I would continue to pay for Topaz at all.
Sidenote: will it still be possible to use bicubic and/or the other upscaling options that don't use AI to upscale?