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Gorkem Yurtseven
Co-founder & CTO, fal
Co-founded fal and spent years optimizing its inference engine for generative media models.
falReal Alpha has cut 6 moments of Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder & CTO, fal) talking, from an interview on Sourcery published Nov 3, 2026.
What Gorkem Yurtseven said
- 4:33
Higher video prices are revealing deeper professional demand Pro pick
“turns out like there is essentially infinite demand so people people started using that model and then even more expensive models came around”
at 7:24 - 13:22
fal pivoted from Python infrastructure to image models
“where the trend still holds is let's focus on image models because like there's something interesting happening there as well”
at 15:37 - 48:49
Hollywood adoption is slower than the AI debate suggests Pro pick
“So far, I would say I had zero impact on anything in Hollywood.”
at 49:12 - 37:32
Model launches now require compute partnerships
“if you are coming up with a new model you really have to plan ahead of time you have to make sure you have enough compute to run inference”
at 38:00 - 27:37
fal keeps management flat with hands-on team leads
“the deepest level we have is like two levels of like reporting and yeah I think that's that's by design”
at 27:49 - 45:06
Open source persists because studios need model control
“they want to be able to fine-tune the model they want to be able to apply different lauras filters to change the lighting”
at 45:32
- 4:33
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