Gorkem Yurtseven

Co-founder & CTO, Fal

Search every verified Gorkem Yurtseven interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Gorkem Yurtseven, co-founder and CTO of fal, discussed the company's work on real-time AI video generation in a September 2026 podcast appearance with a16z General Partner Jennifer Li and fal's Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya. He described fal's post-trained version of MiniMax's open-weight video model, H3 Max, and said that combining model post-training with systems and hardware optimization reduced generation time while maintaining quality. He noted that a public version called H3 Max Turbo can generate a five-second video in about 1.5 seconds at roughly half the cost, and that this speed has enabled experiments with continuous video streams that can remember previous scenes and respond to new directions. Yurtseven said the speed improvement was surprising to his team and that it unlocked new workflows for Hollywood and professional users, including using large language models in tools like Blender. He stated that fal built infrastructure for streaming video with low latency and multiplexing to multiple users, and that his ML team applied optimizations to extend generation from five-second clips to longer durations. He also mentioned that fal's upcoming generative media conference has seen attendance shift from consumer AI to include both new AI-focused studios and major Hollywood studios planning to integrate AI into their workflows. He attributed the increased interest partly to the availability of US-hosted models, which he said removed obstacles for those studios.