Burkay Gur is the co-founder and CEO of Fal.ai, an AI media inference platform. He discusses underrated future applications of generative AI with a16z host Jennifer Li.
“I think what we all agree is that we're very excited about the net new use cases, recreational, you know, image generation, like people just like having fun with it, and that becoming like now video, that becoming maybe like short playable games or whatever, like those kinds of things are going to start happening as these models get bigger.”
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Gur: AI video models are far from reaching marginal quality gains
“With video, we're earlier in the competition. There's still a lot of leapfrogging happening. There's just so much more to build, and there's just, like, you know, we haven't hit, like, a quality bar where there's just, like, marginal improvements.”
Burkay GurAug 1, 2025▶ 19:11The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
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Gur: Imagen excels at character consistency while Flux dominates tooling workflows
“Just to give some examples, like Imogen three, Imogen four, very good at, like, character consistency. Flux, amazing at having an ecosystem of different tooling, you know, so that, like, you can just kind of use an existing workflow someone's built, you know, …”
Burkay GurAug 1, 2025▶ 18:38The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
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Gur: Model capability leaps trigger step-function adoption growth
“What we see internally is every time there's a big shift, In capabilities of models. The adoption and the use case is just, it's like a step function. It just keeps growing.”
Burkay GurAug 1, 2025▶ 13:34The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
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Gur: Fal.ai's first 27 hires were all engineers
“Until we were like 28 people or so, we were all engineers, and I think like the 28th hire was a non engineer.”
Burkay GurAug 1, 2025▶ 29:36The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
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