fal head of engineering @isidentical on why the smartest foundation model strategy may be to give your weights away: "It is very, very important for an open weight ecosystem to exist, especially for image and video where this is just getting started. What open source drives for foundation model companies is insane branding." "If they just released this model as an API, maybe it would be the third or fourth best model and the users would be much less. But now since it's open, people can build…

fal@falAug 26

Introducing H3 Max, new post-trained video model by fal Research. H3 Max ranks #1 for overall quality, prompt understanding, and aesthetics against leading video models, on both first-party and third-party independent evaluations while generating a 5-second 720p video under 3 seconds. H3 Max is 50% off for the next week, making it the highest quality, fastest and cheapest model for overall video generation tasks.