[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

Fal has broken the infinite video generation barrier by posttraining and optimizing Minimax's H3 model, achieving a 35x speedup over the official endpoint and enabling faster-than-realtime video generation. The company's live stream service, fal.live, was created after Twitch and YouTube kicked Fal off their platforms, though the content is described as 'pure slop' with no plot and low quality. Ethan Mollick first noticed the breakthrough, which was then productized by fal employees into an infinite Twitch stream before the platforms' takedowns.

For the entirety of the history of Generative Media https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer/search?query=generative%20media , you basically had to design around the inconvenient fact that generating images and video takes time — even if you used consistency models to get a 30 second generation down to 1 second, you still only have a 1 FPS video at best… well below anything acceptable for consumer-grade human attention. Fal took Minimax’s H3 release from last month https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 and first posttrained it for both cost and quality improvement https://x.com/fal/status/2092710678079447264?s=20 , then optimized it for their in-house inference engine for 35x speed https://x.com/fal/status/2092710679828381979?s=20 of the official endpoint… resulting in crossing the infinite video singularity: This was first noticed by Ethan Mollick: Then productized by fal employees into an infinite twitch stream: and then the floodgates opened: with Twitch/Youtube kicking Fal off the platform immediately, so Fal made their own “twitch plays pokemon” live video service https://fal.live/ : If you watch the stream for even a few seconds, you can tell this is pure slop - nobody will actually watch this fever dream mishmash of content with no plot and low quality RL tuned imagery. And yet… this is the worst that this is ever gong to be. 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