Fifty Cents a Second

Veo2 is on fal.ai now and the quality conversation is over.

I don't mean that in the way people say things are over when they just want to feel like they caught something early. I mean there is no longer a reason to benchmark alternatives, run comparison grids, or maintain opinions about other video models. You open it, you generate something, and the part of your brain that was still treating AI video as a novelty quietly shuts off.

Fifty cents a second. That's the price. Which sounds expensive until you think about what a second of video used to cost — in time, in compute, in the specific misery of watching a Sora output turn a person's hand into a fleshy suggestion of a hand.

This one doesn't do that.

The thing about a quality ceiling getting raised this fast is that it collapses the entire amateur tier of the conversation. All the hot takes about which model handles motion blur correctly, which one does camera shake, which one you use for close-ups versus wide shots — irrelevant. When one option is clearly better and available right now, the only interesting question left is what you're going to make with it.

That part is still on you.