Top diffusion researchers abandoned image for video generation chasing VC hype
Gorkem Yurtseven · The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO) · Oct 22, 2025 · at 20:30
Gorkem Yurtseven is the co-founder and CTO of fal, an AI inference platform. He explains why AI research shifted aggressively from image diffusion to video generation.
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“There were so much to do there, but the price for video was much shinier and there was a lot of VC money being poured into it. All the researchers left doing image research and then focused on video.”
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