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releaseSECONDARY2026-10-30
MengTo quotes Mischief video generation at $0.005 per second

MengTo, who worked on Mischief 1’s landing page, quotes generation at $0.005 per second. Hasantoxr reports availability through fal and OpenRouter, with at least five times the speed of its base model.

workflowSECONDARY2026-10-21
Curious Refuge shows Seedance 2.5 performance transfer with depth maps

Curious Refuge’s tutorial turns greybox footage of an actress drinking coffee into a bar scene. Seedream sets the look, Depth Anywhere extracts depth guidance, and Seedance 2.5 generates the final video.

workflowSECONDARY2026-10-20
Seedance 2.5 uses depth maps to preserve actors’ motion in scene edits

Curious Refuge demonstrates changing a filmed scene while retaining an actor’s performance. The workflow combines an edited starting frame, a depth map and live-action footage in Seedance 2.5.

releaseSECONDARY2026-10-19
BFL launches FLUX 3 Max with 75% off for two weeks

BFL launched FLUX 3 Max with a 75% discount for two weeks. Creator tests on fal report a 10-second clip rendered in about 12 seconds and a 20-second 720p clip costing $0.85.

newsSECONDARY2026-09-20
Ben Nash estimates a MiniMax H3 Max film reskin at $1,500-$3,000 or more

Ben Nash estimates that reskinning a two-hour film with MiniMax H3 Max could cost roughly $1,500 to $3,000 or more in a practical run. His clean 768p single-pass estimate is about $576 before retries and multiple generations.

newsSECONDARY2026-08-30
Infinite Slop adds viewer voting to its live AI-video queue

Infinite Slop now lets viewers upvote what its AI-video stream generates next and has passed 2,000 concurrent viewers. Its creator says the project would cost about $200,000 a month without FAL sponsorship.

workflowSECONDARY2026-08-29
Infinite Slop launches live chat-controlled AI video stream

Levelsio launched a stream where chat messages generate each connected video segment from the prior clip. It uses fal’s post-trained MiniMax H3 Max variant and blocks NSFW and copyright prompts.

releaseSECONDARY2026-08-26
MiniMax H3 Max renders 15-second 720p clips in about 16 seconds

Creator tests on Fal put MiniMax H3 Max 15-second 720p renders at roughly 16–17 seconds. A separate 480p test took 5.17 seconds and cost $0.7125.

releaseSECONDARY2026-06-03
Ideogram 4.0 releases as open-weight image model with JSON layout control

Ideogram 4.0 shipped as an open-weight image model with JSON prompting, bounding boxes, stronger text rendering, and native 2048px output. The release targets layout-heavy creative work, and teams can test early fal and Leonardo integrations in production flows.

releaseSECONDARY2026-06-02
OpenAI introduces Codex Sites for shareable interactive apps

OpenAI rolled out Codex Sites so plans, docs, dashboards, and creative concepts can become interactive apps with shareable URLs. The launch also added role-specific plugins, so teams can use the same workspace for thumbnail pulls, transcription, and other nontechnical tasks.

releaseSECONDARY2026-05-31
Grok Imagine 1.5 drops on fal: creator posts compare its video motion against Seedance 2.0

fal added Grok Imagine Video 1.5, and creator posts immediately tested it against Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni on fight scenes, lip-sync, and reference-driven clips. The early comparisons put it into the serious creator model mix, but not clearly ahead of Seedance in real-world use.

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