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Generative media is expanding faster than we ever imagined, and video is its next frontier. We raised a $49M Series B to fuel our mission: building the core infrastructure for AI-driven media creation. We’re thrilled to share that this round was led by Notable Capital in conjunction with Andreessen Horowitz - who backed us from the start - joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, and First Round Capital, bringing our total funding to $72M. We continue to pioneer the Generative Media category we set out to create. Read more about our plans here: https://lnkd.in/eSiJGuU7

There is no king of the hill in generative AI. Sora looked untouchable. Then Luma, Runway, and MiniMax dropped. Veo 3 launched. Two weeks later, Seedance leapfrogged it. "If you’re not the best, you’re not releasing." Burkay Gur and Batuhan T. from fal break down what it’s like tracking the frontlines in real time. The leaderboard resets every week. It’s live combat.

There is no king of the hill in generative AI. Sora looked untouchable. Then Luma, Runway, and MiniMax dropped. Veo 3 launched. Two weeks later, Seedance leapfrogged it. "If you’re not the best, you’re not releasing." Burkay Gur and Batuhan T. from fal break down what it’s like tracking the frontlines in real time. The leaderboard resets every week. It’s live combat.

Today, we're thrilled to announce our $125M Series C funding round at a $1.5B valuation, led by Meritech Capital, marking our third successful raise in just 12 months! fal’s Generative Media Cloud now powers tens of thousands of applications, supporting over two million developers and more than 300 enterprise customers. From initial prototypes to fully scaled production, we've become the essential infrastructure enabling some of the most innovative and creative work in the industry. Over the past year alone, we've experienced extraordinary growth—averaging 40% month-over-month, consistently exceeding our own ambitious projections. Each month, hundreds of thousands of new developers and thousands of fresh applications join our platform, unlocking entirely new use cases previously thought impossible. With this latest round of funding, we're significantly scaling our engineering, support, sales, and marketing teams to keep pace with the accelerating demand and enthusiasm from our community. Our vision has always been clear: build a generative media platform that effortlessly creates dynamic, real-time content across video, audio, image, and 3D. Thanks to our incredible team, dedicated partners, and visionary customers, that's precisely what fal delivers today—empowering creativity at unprecedented scale. Alongside Arsham Memarzadeh from Meritech Capital we’d love to thank all our existing and new investors joining this round: Sameer Dholakia and Talia Goldberg from Bessemer Venture Partners, Jennifer Li from Andreessen Horowitz, Steve Jang from Kindred Ventures, Glenn Solomon and Dan Cahana from Notable Capital, Emily Zhao from Salesforce Ventures, Jane Lee from Shopify Ventures, Nick Landolfi from Unusual Ventures, Todd Jackson from First Round Capital and Anne Dwane from Village Global.

No more invite codes. Lovart goes public today. Thanks to the 800,000 of you on our waitlist and our many beta friends who helped us prove Lovart's capabilities – but we wanted to make it better for you. Design agent capabilities are just the beginning. True creativity accelerates when humans and AI collaborate naturally. So we built ChatCanvas: the conversational medium where you and your AI agent think together, visually. The agent creates. ChatCanvas transforms how. Welcome to the future of AI agentic design. #Lovart #LovartAI #CreateWithLovart #LovartLaunch

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This Thursday, July 17th we’re joining Kindred Ventures and a focused group of founders, builders, investors, and brands to discuss some of the coming advancements in Generative Media.This category is quickly moving from experimentation and primitive models to a new reality of companies and developers shipping to production across various industries and much higher quality models coming from labs around the world. Generative Media has the potential to be as globally impactful as LLMs on how AI transforms every industry and personal consumer experiences, especially in light of the reality that true multimodal LLMs, agents, and applications require not only perception of various visual and audio inputs, but also ever-improving generative outputs of audio, voice, images, and video. We're excited to bring together founders from Creatify AI, OpenArt AI, and more to share insights and stir up a great conversation about what's happening in the state-of-the-art and on the frontier edge of adoption in the creative world. Register for the event here: https://lu.ma/q75zqg4c

Last week we dropped Google's Veo 3 Fast, the most cost efficient frontier model that exists out there, with native audio generation capabilities. Plus, we're also launced game-changing updates from Vidu, PixVerse, and Luma that push creative boundaries even further. 🎬 Veo 3 Fast: Google's Flagship, Now Faster & Cheaper Veo 3 Fast brings Google's state-of-the-art video generation to production speeds and prices. You get the same exceptional quality and prompt following as the original Veo 3, with native audio that sometimes even outperforms the flagship version – all at a fraction of the time and cost. → Generate with audio now: https://lnkd.in/gUGg_f67 🎨 New Creative Powerhouses Vidu Q1 Reference-to-Video – Upload up to 7 reference images and watch Vidu's semantic engine weave them into cohesive scenes. It intelligently infers missing elements (like adding a violin when you prompt "plays violin") while maintaining perfect consistency across all referenced objects. → https://lnkd.in/gcnijNWm Ray2 Modify – Transform any video's entire aesthetic. Turn live-action into animation, swap environments, change wardrobe, shift time periods. Complete creative control over style while preserving motion. → https://lnkd.in/gn6fRAtR PixVerse Sound Effects – Add professional sound effects to any video. No more silent clips – get the audio that matches your visuals. → https://lnkd.in/gjyyRSRF 🏢 Built for Scale All models available with enterprise volume pricing. Contact sales@fal.ai for platform discounts. Best, fal team

What a great podcast by @Justine Moore, @Olivia Moore and @latentspacepod. Justine and Olivia dive deep into recent generative media trends and explain viral emerging behavior in simple terms. If you need a recap of the past couple of months in the world of AI video this episode is a must watch https://lnkd.in/gCAzYE28

This is one of the newer apps deployed by a customer, B200 cluster scaling up and down nicely throughout the day.