In AI, timing is everything. Large language models have already reshaped software, search, and customer service. Video, meanwhile, remains a technical frontier which is highly anticipated, but still limited by latency, infrastructure, and accessibility. Fal, a generative media infrastructure company founded in 2021, is preparing for what it calls the "ChatGPT moment" for video and just raised $125 million to make sure it’s ready when it arrives.
“We don’t think the ChatGPT moment for video has happened yet,” said CEO Burkay Gur. “But we’re close.”
That anticipation has shaped nearly every decision Fal has made over the past two years from its early focus on inference infrastructure to its refusal to pivot toward large language models, even when growth temporarily stalle
2025 Is The Year Of AI Video For Fal
- By Anshika Mathews
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We suspected it was going to be big, but we had no idea it would be this big.
