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The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

The a16z Show

1 DAYS AGO
The a16z Show

The a16z Show

1 DAYS AGO

Shownote

a16z General Partner Jennifer Li sits down with fal co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven and Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya to discuss what changes when generative video becomes fast enough to run in real time. They unpack the technical work behind H3 Max, fa...

Highlights

This episode traces how fal made generative video fast enough for real-time use—and why precise creative control is now becoming the harder problem.
06:37
The model became 35 times faster
11:14
A five-second video in 1.5 seconds
17:41
Continuous video became an unexpected viral phenomenon
21:03
Viewers could control what happened next
24:44
Video as a live directing experience
32:57
Control is the biggest gap
35:51
Professionals need a different interface for creativity
38:02
Studios are integrating AI into existing workflows

Chapters

Making video generation fast, affordable, and useful
00:00
From pipeline optimization to real-time video
07:52
Continuous video becomes interactive
15:28
From consumer adoption to professional control
23:10
Building controllable tools for studios
32:10

Transcript

Gorkem Yurtseven: Generative media is, I would say, along with the coding agent market, what we call is token market fit. Everyone's waiting for a large consumer moment in AI. I believe H3 Max makes it possible. Jennifer Li: Were you surprised by the spee...