Natalie Luu

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.

The last time we had 15% USD yield in Cosmos, we created the 3rd largest chain in history, surpassing Solana. But this time, it’s fully collateralized. To all ex-Terra builders - it’s time to come back. This time, we’re doing it right, and doing it on the Hub itself. $ATOM

With less than five days of notice, Anthropic decided to cut off nearly all of our first-party capacity to all Claude 3.x models. Given the short notice, we may see some short-term Claude 3.x model availability issues as we have very quickly ramped up capacity on other inference providers, but we believe we have now secured sufficient near term capacity. We have been very clear to Anthropic that this is not our desire - we wanted to pay them for the full capacity. We are disappointed by this decision and short notice. Gemini 2.5 Pro (now very high quality on Windsurf, new 0.75x promo rate), GPT 4.1, and more are all unaffected. We look forward to our continued partnership with all model providers.

AI NEWS: Anthropic is finally joining the voice movement — giving Claude the ability to talk! Plus, more news from Mistral, Google, SpAItial, Tencent, and Salesforce. Here's everything you need to know:

Video, meet audio. 🎥🤝🔊 With Veo 3, our new state-of-the-art generative video model, you can add soundtracks to clips you make. Create talking characters, include sound effects, and more while developing videos in a range of cinematic styles. 🧵

I bet at least 10 unicorns will be built by creating a wrapper around multimodal LLM capabilities