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Razer\u2019s Min-Liang Tan on AI backlash, partnering with Grok, and the future of gaming.<\/p>\n
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Asked by The Verge’s Nilay Patel whether he truly sees value in subscribing to AI platforms<\/a>, Tan says he sees value in all kinds of subscriptions. Here’s a transcript of the part I’m talking about:<\/p>\n Patel: Are you seeing signs that the AI stuff is gonna be worth paying for that way? I mean, this is the bubble. We\u2019re gonna spend all this money, we\u2019ll forward invest in all this infrastructure. We\u2019re gonna skyrocket the price of RAM and GPUs, and then at the end of the day, people are going to say, \u201cThat\u2019s not actually worth the 20 bucks a month.\u201dTan: I don\u2019t necessarily see it as AI, per se, but I see the kind of value that I get out of it. So, for example, a ChatGPT subscription, or a Grok subscription, for that matter. I do see value in it, and that\u2019s why I pay for it. And that\u2019s the way I see it. I don\u2019t see myself as paying for AI, per se. I see it as what am I getting out of a chatbot, for example, that can advise me on travel matters, health matters, whatever it is, my day-to-day, and stuff like that. Is that worth 20 bucks to me?Because you\u2019re a billionaire, right?Sure.I\u2019m just saying, the marginal cost is meaningless to you.20 bucks is still 20 bucks, that\u2019s right.I\u2019m just saying.Right.I think for a lot of people, that is meaningful, especially stacked on top of all the other money they pay. Basically, I\u2019m saying, do you see that critique of AI as a bubble? That the investment has not yet delivered the value that will make it so obvious that the investment\u2019s worth it?So I see that. I mean, huge amounts of investments are going into it. We are investing in AI, I think, as we speak. But I do see the potential at this point. In many cases, I mean, look at the number of paid subscribers for ChatGPT, for example. People do see the value in terms of whether it\u2019s a chatbot AI, so on and so forth. I do think the potential is going to be realized.<\/p>\n “Because you\u2019re a billionaire” has stuck with me. Tan is one of many billionaires at the vanguard of the AI push, empty men whose only reference point and purpose in life is seemingly to make a line go up for as long as possible. And that push, as it stands, is almost entirely reliant on platforms like ChatGPT and Grok going from free, idle curiosities to something millions of people pay a substantial amount of money for every month<\/a>.<\/p>\n I am not a billionaire, but I am a guy reliant on people paying a monthly subscription for something people used to get for free, and let me tell you: good luck guys. At its height in the 2010s, I was writing for an audience at Kotaku that could number between 20-30 million people every month. I am now co-founder of a website that, asking for $7 in return for video game blogs, has 5000 paying subscribers (thank you everyone<\/a>!).<\/p>\n That math works out for me because I am a normal person with normal person obligations like bills and groceries. It absolutely does not work out for companies that are on the hook for billions in data centre and loans<\/a>, let alone lawsuits and licensing disputes<\/a>. To even entertain the thought that the AI bubble could be propped up in any way by subscription costs, let alone commit your entire business model to it, is insane to a normal person<\/a>!<\/p>\n But these aren’t normal people. They’re billionaires. And hearing Tan say “I do see value in it, and that\u2019s why I pay for it”, oblivious to what subscription costs (and fatigue) means to the average person on the street, made me think of this famous (if you’re into basketball) line from Dwyane Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union, where she explains how the multi-millionaire former pro athlete had no idea how much milk cost when he retired:<\/p>\n Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union says he doesn’t know how much milk costs or what happens at car washes: “He has no idea how much milk costs. He’s like ‘what is that, like $20?'”<\/a>
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