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The speed alone is a big factor but if you put the model side by side with seedream and nanobanana and other models it's definitely in the top 5 and that's killer combo imho.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters"}, {"id": 738028833, "item_id": 46126802, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126802", "by": "echelon", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "especially with third party infrastructure like OpenRouter or FAL", "excerpt": "Are all of their sales their code gen model? And isn't there a lot of competition in the code gen space from Google and Anthropic? I'd imagine they sold these to enterprise: https://openai.com/business/ \"ChatGPT for Business\", sold per seat \"API Platform\" I could see the former getting canned if AI isn't adding value. 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We are running inference on tens of thousands of GPUs, and looking for people (in all functions) to help us scale it to hundreds of thousands. Featured Roles: - Distributed Systems Engineer, https://fal.ai/careers/4009192009 - Virtualization Engineer, https://fal.ai/careers/4146037009 - ML", "context": "", "use_case": "Generative media inference platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777601", "title": "Truman World", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520151", "title": "Show HN: I built a live stream site where every spot is instantly AI-generated", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975571", "title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? 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After billing they mentioned models which ai was looking were not launched in india ( Veo3 and nano banana ) I use replicate, fal for all api and for LLM openrouter", "context": "based in India", "use_case": "model APIs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"}, {"id": 738805297, "item_id": 46175331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175331", "by": "amrrs", "date": "2025-12-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "On fal, it takes less than a second many times.", "excerpt": "On fal, it takes less than a second many times. https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/z-image/turbo/api Couple that with the LoRA, in about 3 seconds you can generate completely personalized images. 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