Razer CEO on AI in game dev, Grok, and anime waifus
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.2 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to Decoder. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Nelai Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, |
| 1:08.9 | and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. |
| 1:12.4 | We're back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razor CEO Min Liang Tan, |
| 1:18.5 | which we taped in front of a terrific audience at Brooklyn Bowl in Vegas at CES. |
| 1:23.7 | Now, Razor is obviously best known for making mice and keyboards and gaming PCs and its signature black and bright green, |
| 1:29.3 | with a smattering of RGB LEDs to set everything off. |
| 1:33.3 | But the company always makes splashy announcements at CES, and this year was no different, and along with the hype, there was plenty of controversy. |
| 1:41.3 | This year at CES, Razor those splashy headlines and not a little |
| 1:45.2 | controversy for something that calls Project Ava, an AI companion that has a physical presence |
| 1:50.8 | in the real world. It's an anime hologram that sits in a jar on your desk. Eva is powered by, |
| 1:57.2 | you guessed it, Elon Musk's Grock. There's a lot of choices bundled up in all of that, |
| 2:02.5 | and Razor can't really fall back on the It's Just a Prototype Defense, |
| 2:06.1 | because it's taking $20 reservations |
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