ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 3 fal releases since Aug 2026, most recently fal.live on Sep 3, 2026. Highlights include MiniMax H3 Max, fal.live. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live, plus key numbers where we have them.
fal.live: viewer-steered infinite video stream built in a weekend after Twitch and Kick bans
After fal's infinite Rick and Morty 'interdimensional cable' stream was banned from Twitch and then Kick for copyright, the team built its own streaming site over a weekend with a model tuned for continuous generation. Viewers vote on where the anime and other channels go next. Alex credits it with inspiring the thursdai.news/live build.
fal H3 Max Turbo: ~97% of H3 Max quality in 1.4 seconds at $0.01 per second
fal's Turbo variant of MiniMax H3 Max keeps about 97% of H3 Max quality, generates a clip in 1.4 seconds, and costs one cent per second at 768p, about 50% cheaper. Alex's live test found it no longer renders copyrighted characters the way H3 Max did.
fal's MiniMax H3 Max generates 5-second video in under 3 seconds
fal Research debuted MiniMax H3 Max, a post-train of the open-weight MiniMax H3 that ranks #1 on image-to-video and #3 on text-to-video on Artificial Analysis while generating five-second clips in under three seconds — 2.53s in the live on-air test. Priced at $0.04/second at 768p (promo until Sept 1), with a weights release planned. The speed puts it alone on the speed-versus-quality Pareto frontier.
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