Gur: Model capability leaps trigger step-function adoption growth
Burkay Gur · The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier · Aug 1, 2025 · at 13:34
Burkay Gur is the co-founder and CEO of Fal.ai, an AI media inference platform. He discusses internal telemetry on user adoption when new generative models launch.
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“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.”
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